Thirty-day outcomes of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy in elderly using ACS/NSQIP database

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1061-1071

  Moazzez, Ashkan ^a   Mason, Rodney J ^b   Katkhouda, Namir ^b  

^a Outpatient Surgery H Claude Hudson Comprehensive Health Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Appendix

Indexed keywords

AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 84876288815     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-012-2557-0     Document Type: Article

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