Colon cancer in the splenic flexure: Comparison of short-term outcomes of laparoscopic and open colectomy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 415-418

  Nakashima, Masayuki ^a   Akiyoshi, Takashi ^a   Ueno, Masashi ^a   Fukunaga, Yosuke ^a   Nagayama, Satoshi ^a   Fujimoto, Yoshiya ^a   Konishi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Noaki, Rota ^a   Yamakawa, Keiko ^a   Nagasue, Yasutomo ^a   Kuroyanagi, Hiroya ^b   Yamaguchi, Toshiharu ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

colon cancer; laparoscopic surgery; short term outcomes; splenic flexure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CANCER; SPLENIC FLEXURE CANCER; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON, TRANSVERSE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83055178766     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31823aca96     Document Type: Article

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