Ultrasound for cutting and coagulating tissue

Problems in General Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 47-59

  Amaral, Joseph F ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE; ENERGY; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TONSILLECTOMY; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION;

EID: 0036314055     PISSN: 07398328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013452-200206000-00009     Document Type: Review

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