E-NOTES appendectomy versus transvaginal appendectomy: Similar cosmetic results but shorter complete recovery?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 916-917

  Bucher, Pascal ^a   Ostermann, Sandrine ^a   Pugin, François ^a   Morel, Philippe ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; APPENDECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; COLPOTOMY; CONVALESCENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TRANSVAGINAL APPENDECTOMY; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA;

EID: 62949215469     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0284-3     Document Type: Letter

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