Estimate or calculate? How Surgeons rate volumes and surfaces

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 763-769

  Schuld, Jochen ^a   Kollmar, Otto ^a   Seidel, Roland ^a   Black, Catherine ^a   Schilling, Martin K ^a   Richter, Sven ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Error in estimation; Gastrointestinal surgery; Morphometry; Sense of proportion; Surgeon; Systematic bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY GUIDED PLANIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; ORGAN SIZE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84863923281     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-012-0942-8     Document Type: Article

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