The impact of obesity on technical feasibility and postoperative outcomes of laparoscopic left colectomy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-76

  Leroy, Joel ^a   Ananian, Pascal ^a   Rubino, Francesco ^a   Claudon, Bertrand ^a   Mutter, Didier ^a   Marescaux, Jacques ^a  

^a IRCAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144281881     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000150168.59592.b9     Document Type: Article

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