Ureteral repair with titanium staples: Comparison with suture closure

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 553-557

  Leppäniemi, Ari K ^a,b   Wherry, David C ^a   Pikoulis, Emmanouil ^a   Hufnagel, Howard V ^a   Fishback, Nancy ^a   Rich, Norman M ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; STONE FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; SWINE; TITANIUM; URETER;

EID: 0345367478     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00694-8     Document Type: Article

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