Colorectal surgeons' learning curve of transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3591-3602

  Barendse, Renée M ^a   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G ^b   Rolf, Ursula R ^a   Bijnen, Arnold B ^c   Consten, Esther C J ^d   Hoff, Christiaan ^e   Dekker, Evelien ^a   Fockens, Paul ^a   Bemelman, Willem A ^a   De Graaf, Eelco J R ^f  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Medical Centre Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^d MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^f IJSSELLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal; Learning curve; Rectum; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL RESECTION; RECTOSCOPE; RECTUM ADENOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGEON; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885176212     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-013-2931-6     Document Type: Article

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