A new spleen-preserving technique using radiofrequency ablation technology

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1225-1229

  Felekouras, Evangelos ^a   Kontos, Michael ^a   Pissanou, Theodora ^a   Pikoulis, Emmanouil ^a,b   Drakos, Elias ^a   Papalambros, Efstathios ^a   Diamantis, Theodoras ^a   Bastounis, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Radiofrequency ablation; Splenic injury; Splenic trauma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; HEMATOMA; LAPAROSCOPY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SAFETY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; HEMORRHAGE; MALE; SPLEEN; SWINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 11144226691     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000145072.31725.52     Document Type: Article

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