Early laparoscopy as a routine procedure in the management of acute abdominal pain: A review of 1,320 patients

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 882-885

  Golash, V ^a   Willson, P D ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^b KINGSTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute abdominal pain; Diagnostic laparoscopy; laparoscopic surgery; Peritonitis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH PERFORATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN CYSTS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 24644468081     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-004-8866-1     Document Type: Article

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