Evaluation of the technical difficulty performing laparoscopic resection of a rectosigmoid carcinoma: Visceral fat reflects technical difficulty more accurately than body mass index

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 929-934

  Seki, Y ^a   Ohue, M ^b   Sekimoto, M ^a   Takiguchi, S ^a   Takemasa, I ^a   Ikeda, M ^a   Yamamoto, H ^a   Monden, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMI; Laparoscopic colectomy; Technical difficulty; Visceral fat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADHESIONS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34447336429     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-9084-9     Document Type: Article

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