Surgery without scars: The new frontier of minimally invasive surgery? Controversies, concerns and expectations in advanced operative endoscopy

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 323-324

  Lirici, Marco Maria ^a   Arezzo, Alberto ^b  

^a Department of General and Thoracic Surgery   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Evangelico Internazionale   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SCAR; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD;

ENDOSCOPY; FORECASTING; HUMANS;

EID: 33845960949     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645700601101693     Document Type: Editorial

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