Usefulness of LigaSure for liver resection: analysis by randomized clinical trial

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-45

  Saiura, Akio ^a   Yamamoto, Junji ^a   Koga, Rintaro ^a   Sakamoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Kokudo, Norihiro ^c   Seki, Makoto ^a   Yamaguchi, Takuhiro ^d   Yamaguchi, Toshiharu ^a   Muto, Tetsuichiro ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^c  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood loss; LigaSure; Liver resection; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; CLAMP; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744931633     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.01.025     Document Type: Article

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