Needlescopic cholecystectomy versus needlescope-assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 375-379

  Tagaya, Nobumi ^a   Rokkaku, Kyu ^a   Kubota, Keiichi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laparoscope; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Needlescope; Needlescopic cholecystectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC DUCT; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER POLYP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEEDLESCOPE; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; UMBILICUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38849184808     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31806db58b     Document Type: Article

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