Open AccessPediatric laparoscopy: Facts and factitious claims
Author(s) -
V Raveenthiran
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1998-3891
pISSN - 0971-9261
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9261.72434
Subject(s) - medicine , laparoscopy , laparotomy , assertion , general surgery , pediatric surgery , surgery , computer science , programming language
Pediatric laparoscopy (LS) is claimed to be superior to open surgery (OS). This review questions the scientific veracity of this assertion by systematic analysis of published evidences comparing LS versus OS in infants and children.