The handmade endoloop technique: A simple and cheap technique for laparoscopic appendectomy

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 224-227

  Yildiz, Fahrettin ^a   Terzi, Alpaslan ^a   Coban, Sacid ^b   Zeybek, Nazif ^c   Uzunkoy, Ali ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 66549128715     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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