Hand-assisted laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy: Helping hand or hindrance?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 656-661

  Chang, Y J ^a,b   Marcello, P W ^a   Rusin, L C ^a   Roberts, P L ^a   Schoetz, D J ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Taipei Municipal Chung Hsin Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hand assisted laparoscopic colectomy; Hand assisted laparoscopy; Laparoscopic colectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC POLYPS; DIVERTICULITIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21244480597     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-004-8905-y     Document Type: Article

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