Multidimensional analysis of the learning curve for laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Lessons from 1,000 cases of laparoscopic colorectal surgery

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 839-846

  Park, In Ja ^a   Choi, Gyu Seog ^a   Lim, Kyoung Hoon ^a   Kang, Byung Mo ^a   Jun, Soo Han ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Colorectal surgery; Laparoscopic; Learning curve

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ANALYSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIPOMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KOREA; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 62949181954     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0259-4     Document Type: Article

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