Laparoscopic approach to treatment of sigmoid diverticulitis: Changes in the spectrum of indications and results of a prospective, multicenter study on 1,545 patients

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1883-1888

  Scheidbach, Hubert ^a,b   Schneider, Claus ^b   Rose, Jörg ^b   Konradt, Jochen ^b   Gross, Eberhard ^b   Bärlehner, Eckhard ^b   Pross, Matthias ^a   Schmidt, Uwe ^a   Köckerling, Ferdinand ^b   Lippert, Hans ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Laparoscopic Colorectal Surg S   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conversion; Diverticular disease; Experience; Laparoscopic colorectal surgery; Morbidity; Mortality; Multicenter study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON FISTULA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 19944426094     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0715-8     Document Type: Article

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