Mini-laparoscopic versus laparoscopic approach to appendectomy

BMC Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-4

  Mostafa, Gamal ^a   Matthews, Brent D ^a   Sing, Ronald F ^a   Kercher, Kent W ^a   Heniford, B Todd ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDLESCOPIC APPENDECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042782454     PISSN: 14712482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-1-4     Document Type: Article

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