Improving outcomes after laparoscopic appendectomy: A population-based, 12-year trend analysis of 7446 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-313

  Brügger, Lukas ^a   Rosella, Laura ^b   Candinas, Daniel ^a   Güller, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE PERFORATION; JAUNDICE; LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NERVE COMPRESSION; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PERITONITIS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79151481140     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181fc9d53     Document Type: Article

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