HPB Surgery Can Be Safely Performed in a Community Teaching Hospital

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1853-1857

  Cocieru, Andrei ^a   Saldinger, Pierre F ^a  

^a DANBURY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Community hospital; Hepatobiliopancreatic surgery; ISGFP

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958451508     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-010-1215-x     Document Type: Article

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