TAPP or TEP? Population-based analysis of prospective data on 4,552 patients undergoing endoscopic inguinal hernia repair

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2782-2786

  Gass, Markus ^a   Banz, Vanessa M ^a   Rosella, Laura ^b   Adamina, Michel ^c   Candinas, Daniel ^a   Güller, Ulrich ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877126296     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1760-4     Document Type: Article

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