Initial experience with the harmonic scalpel in liver surgery

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 33, 2000, Pages 763-766

  Gertsch, P ^a   Pelloni, A ^a   Guerra, A ^a   Krpo, A ^a  

^a OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Harmonic scalpel; Liver surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CYST; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALPEL; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; CYSTS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034101090     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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