Laparoscopic liver resection: Is there a learning curve?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Robinson, Stuart M ^a   Hui, Kei Y ^a   Amer, Aimen ^a   Manas, Derek M ^a   White, Steve A ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Colorectal metastasis; Laparoscopic liver resection; Liver; Liver metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859053710     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335737     Document Type: Article

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