Laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Is the "learning curve" necessary?;Chirurgia colo-rettale laparoscopica: E necessaria la "curva di apprendimento"?

Annali Italiani di Chirurgia

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-187

  Jovine, Elio ^a   Talarico, Fernando ^b   Bolchini, Federico ^b   Landolfo, Giovanni ^b   Mastrangelo, Laura ^b   Lerro, Maria Federica ^b   Martuzzi, Federica ^b   Selleri, Simonetta ^b   Lazzari, Andrea ^b   Iusco, Domenico Rosario ^b   Gizzi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colo rectal surgery; Laparoscope learning curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LEARNING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LEARNING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 32944454818     PISSN: 2239253X     EISSN: 2239253X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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