Journal of Surgical Education
Volume 67, Issue 3 , Pages 161-166 , May 2010

Laparoscopic Colectomy In Octogenarians and Nonagenarians: A Preferable Option to Open Surgery?

Aspects of this work were presented as a poster at the 94th Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, October 2008.

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 Competing interests: All authors have declared no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2010.02.009

Journal of Surgical Education
Volume 67, Issue 3 , Pages 161-166 , May 2010

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