Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and use of laparoscopy for surgical problems during pregnancy: This statement was reviewed and approved by the Board of Governors of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), September 2007. It was prepared by the SAGES Guidelines Committee

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 849-861

  Yumi, Hori ^a  

^a Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GADOLINIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADRENALECTOMY; AERATION; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LAPAROSCOPY; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SPLENECTOMY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42149164837     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9758-6     Document Type: Review

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