The controversy regarding hand-assisted colorectal resection

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2123-2126

  Stein, Sharon ^a   Whelan, Richard L ^b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; BODY MASS; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INJURY; LAPAROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COLECTOMY; COLON; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; RECTUM;

EID: 36248951760     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9693-y     Document Type: Editorial

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