Transumbilical laparoscopically assisted appendectomy in children: High-tech low-budget surgery

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1667-1671

  Visnjic, S ^a  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Children; Cost analysis; Laparoscopy; Single port appendectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLIP; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECURRENT DISEASE; STAPLER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROATIA; DICLOFENAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES;

EID: 52249098830     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9680-3     Document Type: Article

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