Surgery: A midline or transverse abdominal incision?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 571-572

  Kehlet, Henrik ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CATHETER; DIETARY INTAKE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; INCISION; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DISEASE; MOBILIZATION; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 70349964683     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2009.150     Document Type: Article

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