Securing the appendiceal stump in laparoscopic appendectomy: Evidence for routine stapling?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1473-1476

  Kazemier, G ^a   In't Hof, K H ^a   Saad, S ^b   Bonjer, H J ^a   Sauerland, S ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Laparoscopy; Stapling

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WOUND INFECTION;

APPENDECTOMY; HUMANS; ILEUS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURGICAL STAPLERS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749023347     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0525-7     Document Type: Article

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