Evaluation of the aesthetic results perceived by patients after 3-port laparoscopic appendectomy;Valoracio'n del resultado este' tico percibido por los pacientes apendicectomizados vi'a laparosco' pica mediante tres incisiones

Cirugia Espanola

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 317-320

  Ruiz de Angulo, David ^a   Martínez de Haro, Luisa F ^a   Ortiz, M Ángeles ^a   Munitiz, Vicente ^a   Navas, Diana ^a   Abrisqueta, Jesús ^a   Parrilla, Pascual ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BEAUTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955130977     PISSN: 0009739X     EISSN: 1578147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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