Ultrasonically activated shears in extended lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 158-161

  Tsimoyiannis, Evangelos C ^a,b   Jabarin, Mochammed ^a   Tsimoyiannis, John C ^a   Betzios, John P ^a   Tsilikatis, Christos ^a   Glantzounis, George ^a  

^a G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER STAGING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHORRHEA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONICALLY ACTIVATED COAGULATING SHEARS; WOUND INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ELECTROSURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0036480057     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-001-0199-9     Document Type: Article

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