Single-trocar cholecystectomy using a flexible endoscope and articulating laparoscopic instruments: A bridge to NOTES or the final form?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 969-972

  Elazary, Ram ^a   Khalaileh, Abed ^a   Zamir, Gideon ^a   Har Lev, Michael ^b   Almogy, Gidon ^a   Rivkind, Avraham I ^a   Mintz, Yoav ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Endoscope; Gallbladder; Laparoscopy; Single; Trocar

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPE; GALLBLADDER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TROCAR;

EID: 67349084012     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0289-y     Document Type: Article

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