Effect of fixation of shoulder and elbow joint movement on the precision of laparoscopic instrument manipulations

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 366-368

  Patil, P V ^a   Hanna, G B ^b   Frank, T G ^a   Cuschieri, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrument; Laparoscopy; Motion analysis; Skill

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELBOW; EYE TRACKING; HAND MOVEMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; LAPAROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; VELOCITY;

ELBOW JOINT; HAND; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 21244463996     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-003-8284-9     Document Type: Article

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