Surgical approach to hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Aarts, Johanna W M ^a   Nieboer, Theodoor E ^a   Johnson, Neil ^b   Tavender, Emma ^c   Garry, Ray ^d   Mol, Ben Willem J ^b   Kluivers, Kirsten B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; BENIGN FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; BLADDER INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEVER; FISTULA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; ROBOT ASSISTED SURGERY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINARY TRACT INJURY; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; VAGINITIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE;

FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTERECTOMY, VAGINAL; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84991260629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003677.pub5     Document Type: Review

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