Is laparoscopic colon surgery appropriate in patients who have had previous abdominal surgery?

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1015-1019

  Barleben, Andrew ^a,b   Gandhi, Dhruvil ^a,b   Nguyen, Xuan Mai ^a,b   Che, Fred ^a   Nguyen, Ninh T ^a,b   Mills, Steven ^a,b   Stamos, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70450239872     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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