The learning curve for robot-assisted total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 400-405

  Kim, Young Wan ^a   Lee, Hak Min ^b   Kim, Nam Kyu ^b   Min, Byung Soh ^b   Lee, Kang Young ^b  

^a Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

laparoscopy; learning curve; rectum; robot

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JEJUNUM DISEASE; JEJUNUM PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; URETER INJURY; URETHRA INJURY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84867866386     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3182622c2d     Document Type: Article

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