Evaluation of a vessel sealing system, bipolar electrosurgery, harmonic scalpel, titanium clips, endoscopic gastrointestinal anastomosis vascular staples and sutures for arterial and venous ligation in a porcine model

Journal of Urology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 697-700

  Landman, Jaime ^a,b,c   Kerbl, Kurt ^a,b,c   Rehman, Jamil ^a,b,c   Andreoni, Cassio ^a,b,c   Humphrey, Peter A ^a,b,c   Collyer, William ^a,b,c   Olweny, Ephrem ^a,b,c   Sundaram, Chandru ^a,b,c   Clayman, Ralph V ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Hemostasis; Laparoscopy; Surgical equipment; Swine

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; FORCEPS; HEMOSTASIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN LIGATION;

EID: 0037306077     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)63995-X     Document Type: Article

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