Can we do better?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-10

  Marcello, Peter W ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DIVERTICULITIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRESSING;

COLECTOMY; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 77954086694     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181e92c96     Document Type: Editorial

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