Endometrial Cancer Surgery Costs: Robot vs Laparoscopy

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 500-503

  Holtz, David O ^a,b   Miroshnichenko, Gennady ^a   Finnegan, Mark O ^a   Chernick, Michael ^b   Dunton, Charles J ^a,b  

^a LANKENAU HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Endometrial cancer; Hysterectomy; Laparoscopy; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MONEY; OPERATION DURATION; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE TUBE;

DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OPERATING ROOMS; OVARIECTOMY; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 77953599592     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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