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Surgical Endoscopy
Published in: Surgical Endoscopy 6/2006

01-06-2006 | Letter to the editor

Fewer adhesions after laparoscopic surgery?

Author: W. D. Majewski

Published in: Surgical Endoscopy | Issue 6/2006

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In their review articles, Gutt et al. [2] and Sauerland and Neugebauer [4], commenting on fewer adhesions after laparoscopic than open surgery, stated that laparoscopic surgery plays some role in preventing postoperative adhesions, but that long-term studies are still needed for many procedures. I wish to comment on this. …
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De Wilde RL (1991) Goodbye to late bowel obstruction after appendicectomy [Letter]. Lancet 338: 1012PubMed
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Gutt CN, Oniu T, Schemmer P, Mehrabi A, Buehler MW (2004) Fewer adhesions induced by laparoscopic surgery? Surg Endosc 18: 898–906PubMedCrossRef
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Majewski W (2005) Long-term outcome of laparoscopic and open surgical therapies for acute abdomen. Follow-up of a prospective trial. Surg Endosc 19: 81–90PubMedCrossRef
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Metadata
Title
Fewer adhesions after laparoscopic surgery?
Author
W. D. Majewski
Publication date
01-06-2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Surgical Endoscopy / Issue 6/2006
Print ISSN: 0930-2794
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2218
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-005-0718-0

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