The learning curve for hand-assisted laparoscopic colectomy: A single surgeon's experience

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 234-237

  Kang, J C ^a   Jao, S W ^b   Chung, M H ^c   Feng, C C ^b   Chang, Y J ^a  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hand assisted laparoscopic colectomy; Learning curve; Surgical experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CONSTIPATION; DIVERTICULITIS; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; ILEUS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; JOB EXPERIENCE; LEARNING CURVE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846297007     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0448-3     Document Type: Article

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