Laparoscopic entry techniques

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Ahmad, Gaity ^a   Gent, David ^a   Henderson, Daniel ^b   O'Flynn, Helena ^a   Phillips, Kevin ^c   Watson, Andrew ^d  

^a PENNINE ACUTE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b FAIRFIELD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOPERITONEUM; BLADDER INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE STERILIZATION; GALLSTONE; GAS EMBOLISM; GASTROSTOMY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; UTERUS BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLADDER; BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; INJURIES; INTESTINE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; META ANALYSIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ABDOMINAL WALL; BLOOD VESSELS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84981557054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006583.pub4     Document Type: Review

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