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Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies Volume 6, 1997 - Issue 1
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Laparoscopic surgeons' thumb-is it a training phenomenon?

S. J. Neuhaus The Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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D. I. Watson The Royal Adelaide Centre for Endoscopic Surgery, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Pages 31-32 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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L. Kranenburg & D. Gossot. (2004) Ergonomic problems encountered during video‐assisted thoracic surgery. Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies 13:3, pages 147-155.
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Tatiana Catanzarite, Jasmine Tan-Kim & Shawn Adam Menefee. (2018) Ergonomics in gynecologic surgery. Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology 30:6, pages 432-440.
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Ciro Esposito, Alaa El Ghoneimi, Atsuyuki Yamataka, Steve Rothenberg, Marcela Bailez, Marcelo Ferro, Piergiorgio Gamba, Marco Castagnetti, Girolamo Mattioli, Pascale Delagausie, Dimitris Antoniou, Philippe Montupet, Antonio Marte, Amulya Saxena, Mirko Bertozzi, Paul Philippe, François Varlet, Hubert Lardy, Antony Caldamone, Alessandro Settimi, Gloria Pelizzo, Francois Becmeur, Maria Escolino, Teresa De Pascale, Azad Najmaldin & Felix Schier. (2013) Work-related upper limb musculoskeletal disorders in paediatric laparoscopic surgery. A multicenter survey. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 48:8, pages 1750-1756.
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N. Inaki, E. Kanehira, T. Kinoshita, K. Komai, K. Omura & G Watanabe. (2006) Ringed silicon rubber attachment prevents laparoscopic surgeon’s thumb. Surgical Endoscopy 21:7, pages 1126-1130.
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Nicholas Stylopoulos & David Rattner. (2003) Robotics and ergonomics. Surgical Clinics of North America 83:6, pages 1321-1337.
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Ninh T Nguyen, Hung S Ho, Warren D Smith, Constantine Philipps, Clare Lewis, Rodel M De Vera & Ramon Berguer. (2001) An ergonomic evaluation of surgeons’ axial skeletal and upper extremity movements during laparoscopic and open surgery. The American Journal of Surgery 182:6, pages 720-724.
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A.K. HemalM. SrinivasA.R. Charles. (2001) Ergonomic Problems Associated with Laparoscopy. Journal of Endourology 15:5, pages 499-503.
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