Technology and clinical application of ultrasonic dissection

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 215-223

  Feil, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Department of Surgery   (Austria)

Author keywords

General surgery; Harmonic scalpel; Laparoscopic surgery; Surgical technology; UltraCision; Ultrasonic dissection

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACCURACY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CANCER SURGERY; CAUTERIZATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DISSECTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER RESECTION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SCALPEL; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THYROID SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0036959076     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645706.2003.11873717     Document Type: Review

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