Comparison of experimental microvascular end-to-end anastomosis via VCS®-Clips versus conventional suture technique in an animal model

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-49

  Kloppel M ^a   Tudor, C ^a   Kovacs, Laszlo ^a   Papadopulos, N A ^a   Hohnke C ^a   Himsl, I ^a   Hoang, N T ^a   Biemer, E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Vascular microsurgery; VCS Clip

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SUTURING METHOD; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR NECROSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HYPERPLASIA; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MICROSURGERY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846185163     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-958702     Document Type: Article

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