Getting started with robotics in general surgery with cholecystectomy: The Canadian experience

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 374-378

  Jayaraman, Shiva ^a,b,c   Davies, Ward ^b   Schlachta, Christopher M ^a,b,c  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics CSTAR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE SAFETY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ROBOTICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; ONTARIO; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350069856     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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