Learning curve in laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Our first 100 patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 683-686

  Avital, Shmuel ^a   Hermon, Hila ^a   Greenberg, Ron ^a   Karin, Eliad ^a   Skornick, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Colorectal surgery; Complications; Laparoscopy; Learning curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; POLYP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL SURGERY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750683645     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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