Preliminary experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a Nigerian teaching hospital;Expérience préliminaire de la laparoscopie dans un Hôpital Universitaire du Nigeria

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-123

  Afuwape, O O ^a   Akute, O O ^b   Adebanjo, A T O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b BOWEN UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Experience; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; CALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OPERATION DURATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS, PROBLEM-ORIENTED; NIGERIA; OPERATIVE TIME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 84890961165     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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