Two year experience with minimal access surgery at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 564-567

  Kravarusic, Dragan ^a,b   Dlugy, Elena ^a,b   Steinberg, Ran ^a,b   Paloi, Boris ^a,b   Baazov, Artur ^a,b   Feigin, Elad ^a,b   Freud, Enrique ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Pediatric minimal access; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENALECTOMY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONADECTOMY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFANT; ISRAEL; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPLENECTOMY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 24944541637     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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