Laparoscopic appendectomies: Experience of a surgical unit

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 242-247

  Gurrado, Angela ^a   Faillace, Giuseppe ^b   Bottero, Luca ^b   Frola, Carlo ^b   Stefanini, Paolo ^b   Piccinni, Giuseppe ^a   Longoni, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b Sesto San Giovanni Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Laparoscopy; Minimally invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BLADDER PERFORATION; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72649091441     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645700903053840     Document Type: Article

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