Is there a role for a strict incision length criterion for determining conversions during laparoscopic colorectal resection?

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 120-126

  Offodile II, Anaeze C ^a   Balik, Emre ^a   Hoffman, Aviad ^a   Moon, Victor ^a   Baxter, Raymond ^a   Grieco, Michael ^b   Moradi, Dovid ^a   Kim, Ik Yong ^a   Nasar, Abu ^b   Cekic, Vesna ^b   Feingold, Daniel L ^a   Arnell, Tracey D ^a   Huang, Emina ^c   Whelan, Richard L ^b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion; Incision length; Laparoscopic colorectal resection; Laparoscopic assisted colectomy; Minimally invasive colorectal resection

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCISION; INCISION LENGTH; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC ASSISTED COLORECTAL RESECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL WALL; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; RECTUM; VERY ELDERLY;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BODY MASS INDEX; COLECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952943040     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350610366715     Document Type: Article

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