First year experience of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery with 153 cases in a General Surgery Department: Indications, technique and results

Chirurgia (Romania)

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-150

  Tomulescu, V ^a   Stanciulea O ^a   Balescu I ^a   Vasile, S ^a   Tudor, St ^a   Gheorghe, C ^b   Vasilescu, C ^a   Popescu, I ^a  

^a FUNDENI CLINICAL INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^b Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84904789473     PISSN: 12219118     EISSN: 1842368X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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