Mini-laparotomy cholecystectomy versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Which way to go?

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 321-324

  Vagenas, Konstantinos ^a,b   Spyrakopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Karanikolas, Menelaos ^a   Sakelaropoulos, George ^a   Maroulis, Ioannis ^a   Karavias, Dionissios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Mini laparotomy cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOVERY ROOM; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750365492     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sle.0000213720.42215.7b     Document Type: Article

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