Twenty-millimeter laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Fewer ports results in less pain, shorter hospitalization, and faster recovery

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 298-302

  Osborne, Dana ^a   Boe, Brian ^a   Rosemurgy, Alexander S ^a   Zervos, Emmanuel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 20444478687     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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