Laparoscopic cholecystectomy using ultrasonically activated coagulating shears

Surgical Laparoscopy and Endoscopy

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 421-424

  Tsimoyiannis, Evangelos C ^a,b   Jabarin, Mohammed ^a   Glantzounis, George ^a   Lekkas, Epameinondas T ^a   Siakas, Philipos ^a   Stefanaki Nikou, Stella ^a  

^a G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bile leak; Coagulation; Hemorrhage; Laparoscopy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0032434103     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199812000-00004     Document Type: Article

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