Impact of the standardized medial-to-lateral approach on outcome of laparoscopic colorectal resection. Is it a fair comparison?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1147-

  Day, Weida ^a   Lau, Patrick Ying Yu ^a  

^a KWONG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955557424     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0383-x     Document Type: Letter

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