Do elderly patients benefit from laparoscopic colorectal surgery?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 401-405

  Person, B ^a   Cera, S M ^a   Sands, D R ^a   Weiss, E G ^a   Vernava, A M ^a   Nogueras, J J ^a   Wexner, S D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal surgery; Elderly; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 39049098173     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9412-8     Document Type: Article

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