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Difficulties in Anesthesia for Urologic Laparoscopy

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Laparoscopic techniques have rapidly increased in popularity because of multiple advantages: smaller incisions compared with traditional open techniques, reduction in the postoperative pain, lower postoperative pulmonary complications, lower incidence of postoperative ileus, and early ambulation. All of these aspects carry substantial medico-economic advantages.1

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    Amr M. Sayed

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    Inderbir S. Gill

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Sayed, A.M. (2011). Difficulties in Anesthesia for Urologic Laparoscopy. In: Al-Kandari, A., Gill, I. (eds) Difficult conditions in laparoscopic urologic surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-105-7_3

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