Laparoscopic sterilization with the harmonic scalpel

Journal of Gynecologic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-44

  Stefanidis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Paschopoulos, Minas ^a   Dalkalitsis, Nicolaos ^a   Lolis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTPATIENT; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

EID: 0032908956     PISSN: 10424067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gyn.1999.15.41     Document Type: Article

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