Bowel injury in gynecologic laparoscopy: A systematic review

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1407-1417

  Llarena, Natalia C ^a   Shah, Anup B ^a   Milad, Magdy P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; CAUSE OF DEATH; GYNECOLOGIC LAPAROSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COLON; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; INJURIES; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MORTALITY; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH;

COLON; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; RECTUM; STOMACH;

EID: 84929847482     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000855     Document Type: Review

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