Can a small ultrasonic dissector equipped for electrocautery improve the results of hepatic resection?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 66, 2005, Pages 1845-1848

  Seyama, Yasuji ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a   Cescon, Matteo ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrocautery; Hepatic resection; Quality of hepatectomy; Ultrasonic dissector

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; ULTRASONIC DISSECTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 28544450382     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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