A second-generation laparoscopic port system: EndoTIP(TM)

Gynaecological Endoscopy

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 397-401

  Ternamian, Artin M ^a,b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access device; Complications; Laparoscopy; Port method; Second generation port system; Trocar injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033393174     PISSN: 09621091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2508.1999.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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