The rabbit model serves as a valuable operative experience and helps to establish new techniques for abdominal and thoracic endosurgery

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-93

  Kirlum, Hans Joachim ^a   Heinrich, Martina ^a   Till, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery; Pediatric endosurgery; Rabbit model; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GASTROSTOMY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; LUNG BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX SURGERY;

ANIMALS; ENDOSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPY; MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 13844262903     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-004-1330-4     Document Type: Article

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