Comparison of wound-healing and tissue effects using the Gyrus PlasmaKnife with monopolar, Coblation, and Harmonic Scalpel methodologies

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-26

  Sibbons, Paul D ^a   Southgate, Aaron ^a  

^a NORTHWICK PARK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bi polar; Histology; Monopolar; PlasmaKnife; Surgery; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; ELECTRODE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MESOTHELIUM; MUSCLE INJURY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RISK REDUCTION; SCALPEL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SWINE; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646862979     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-005-0588-9     Document Type: Article

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