A prospective randomized trial comparing harmonic scalpel versus electrocautery for pectoralis major myocutaneous flap dissection

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1006-1009

  Deo, Suryanarayana ^a,b   Hazarika, Sidhartha ^a,b   Shukla, Nootan Kumar ^a,b   Kar, Madhabananda ^a,b   Samaiya, Atul ^a,b  

^a All India Inst of Medical Sciences ^*

^b INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HARMONIC SCALPEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH CANCER; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OPERATION DURATION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCALPEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DISSECTION; DRAINAGE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 16344378606     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000154209.21728.51     Document Type: Article

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