Bipolar anastomosis technique with removable instruments: An easy, fast, and reliable technique for vascular anastomosis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 961-966

  Schubert, Heinrich M ^a   Hohlrieder, Matthias ^b   Jeske, Hans Christian ^b   Obrist, Peter ^b   Moser, Patrizia L ^b   Mayr, Winfried ^b   Klima, Guenther ^b   Kolbitsch, Christian ^b   Margreiter, Raimund ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUTURE MATERIAL;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKILL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; SWINE; TIME; VASCULAR PATENCY; WELDING; ANIMAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 2542445473     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000105644.83096.20     Document Type: Article

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