Should completely intracorporeal anastomosis be considered in obese patients who undergo laparoscopic colectomy for benign or malignant disease of the colon?

Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 675-683

  Raftopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Courcoulas, Anita P ^a   Blumberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BODY MASS INDEX; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748953526     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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