A multicentre collaborative study on the use of cold scalpel and electrocautery for midline abdominal incision

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 128-132

  Franchi, Massimo ^a   Ghezzi, Fabio ^a   Benedetti Panici, Pier Luigi ^a   Melpignano, Mauro ^a   Fallo, Luca ^a   Tateo, Saverio ^a   Maggi, Renato ^a   Scambia, Giovanni ^a   Mangili, Giorgia ^a   Buttarelli, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cold scalpel; Diathermy; Electrocautery; Wound incision; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUTERIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATHERMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SKIN INCISION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERUS CANCER; WOUND INFECTION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; OVARIECTOMY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0035043444     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00561-4     Document Type: Article

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