{"title":"Laparoscopic colon surgery.","authors":"M. Stamos, H. Vargas","doi":"10.21037/ales.2019.09.03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Minimally invasive approaches to general surgical procedures became popularized over the decade following its introduction by Erich Muhe in 1982. It is now universally accepted that laparoscopy is associated with decreased post-operative pain and length of stay.","PeriodicalId":22925,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"8 1","pages":"41-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Western journal of medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21037/ales.2019.09.03","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Minimally invasive approaches to general surgical procedures became popularized over the decade following its introduction by Erich Muhe in 1982. It is now universally accepted that laparoscopy is associated with decreased post-operative pain and length of stay.