Relationship between surgical volume and clinical outcome: Should pediatric surgeons be doing pancreaticoduodenectomies?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 793-796

  Dasgupta, Roshni ^a   Kim, Peter C W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Outcome; Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19444385845     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.01.044     Document Type: Article

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