Acute thermal injury to the canine jejunal free flap: Electrocautery versus ultrasonic dissection

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 334-337

  Birch, Daniel W ^a,b   Park, Adrian ^b   Shuhaibar, Hafez ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; DOG; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JEJUNUM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; THERMAL INJURY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0032951086     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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