Novel technology and innovations in colorectal surgery: The circular stapler for treatment of hemorrhoids and fibrin glue for treatment of perianal fistulae

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-252

  Person, Benjamin ^a   Wexner, Steven D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ABSCESS; ANUS FISTULA; ASIA; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; GANGRENE; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

COLORECTAL SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECTAL FISTULA; RECTAL PROLAPSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL STAPLERS; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16844368444     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060401100407     Document Type: Review

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