Endo-laparoscopic colectomy without mini-laparotomy for left-sided colonic tumors

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1287-1291

  Cheung, Hester Y S ^a   Leung, Alex L H ^a   Chung, C C ^a   Ng, Dennis C K ^a   Li, Michael K W ^a  

^a PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; DESCENDING COLON; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LEFT SIDED COLONIC TUMOR; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MINI LAPAROTOMY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RECTOSIGMOID TUMOR; RECTUM TUMOR; SAFETY; SIGMOID; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC OPERATION DEVICE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349243336     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0006-6     Document Type: Article

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