Surgery: New indications for laparoscopic sigmoidectomy

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 388-390

  Bashankaev, Badma ^a   Wexner, Steven D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; WELLBEING;

COLECTOMY; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY;

EID: 67650872934     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2009.99     Document Type: Article

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