Is operative conversion necessary for patients diagnosed with dense adhesions during an elective laparoscopic colectomy?

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-218

  Blumberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesions; Conversion; Laparoscopic colectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALPEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADHESIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 49849090785     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350608322101     Document Type: Article

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