Comparison of monopolar electrocoagulation, bipolar electrocoagulation, ultracision, and ligasure

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 908-913

  Diamantis, Theodore ^a   Kontos, Michael ^a   Arvelakis, Antonios ^a   Syroukis, Spiridon ^a   Koronarchis, Dimitris ^a   Papalois, Apostolos ^a   Agapitos, Emmanuel ^a   Bastounis, Elias ^a   Lazaris, Andreas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Hemostasis; Ligasure; Monopolar; Ultracision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR ELECTROCOAGULATION; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HEALING; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGASURE; MALE; MONOPOLAR ELECTROCOAGULATION; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SAFETY; STOMACH PERFORATION; STOMACH WALL; THERMAL INJURY; ULTRACISION; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; LIGATION; MALE; RABBITS; STOMACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33749002228     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3254-1     Document Type: Article

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