The multiphasic learning curve for robot-assisted rectal surgery

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3297-3307

  Sng, Kevin Kaity ^a,b   Hara, Masayasu ^a,c   Shin, Jae Won ^a   Yoo, Byung Eun ^a   Yang, Kyung Sook ^d   Kim, Seon Hahn ^a  

^a College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Colorectal; Cumulative sum; Learning curve; Minimally invasive surgery; Rectal cancer; Robot assisted

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOATING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON SPLENIC FLEXURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE INFARCTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICTURITION DISORDER; MOLECULAR DOCKING; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOT ASSISTED RECTAL SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885081057     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-013-2909-4     Document Type: Article

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