Laparoscopic colon resection by a single general surgeon in a community hospital: A review of 200 consecutive cases

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-17

  Fiscon, Valentino ^a   Frigo, Flavio ^a   Migliorini, Giovanni ^a   Portale, Giuseppe ^a   Lazzarini, Elvio ^a  

^a Azienda ULSS 15 Alta Padovana   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON PERFORATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROHN DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOLVULUS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60549093258     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2008.0103     Document Type: Review

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