Total laparoscopic hysterectomy: The Brisbane learning curve

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-69

  Garrett, Andrea J ^a   Nascimento, Marcelo Carraro ^a   Nicklin, James L ^a   Perrin, Lewis C ^a   Obermair, Andreas ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gynaecological cancer; Laparoscopic hysterectomy; Learning curve; New surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846503966     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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