Is laparoscopy safe and effective in nontraumatic acute abdomen?

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 589-593

  Caruso, Carlo ^a   La Torre, Marco ^a   Benini, Bruno ^b   Catani, Marco ^c   Crafa, Francesco ^d   De Leo, Antonio ^e   Neri, Tiziano ^f   Sacchi, Marco ^g  

^a Tecnopolo di Castel Romano ^*  (Italy)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Vannini   (Italy)

^e SANDRO PERTINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f REGINA APOSTOLORUM HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g SANTA MARIA GORETTI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CORPUS LUTEAL CYST RUPTURE; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYST; DEEP ABDOMINAL COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIVERTICULITIS; DUODENUM STENOSIS; DUODENUM ULCER; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOSCOPIC PERFORATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENDER; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONTRAUMATIC ACUTE ABDOMEN; OPERATION DURATION; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY TORSION; PANCREATITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051970592     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2011.0030     Document Type: Article

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