A comparison of depth of tissue injury caused by different modes of electrosurgical current in a pig colon model

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 374-379

  Chino, Akiko ^a,b   Karasawa, Takafumi ^a   Uragami, Naoyuki ^a   Endo, Yutaka ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Fujita, Rikiya ^a  

^a Cancer Institute Hospital ^*

^b CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLON BIOPSY; COLON INJURY; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROSURGERY; FORCEPS; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ILLUMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE INJURY; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSURGERY; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 1542410050     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02712-3     Document Type: Article

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