The Vascular Join: A new sutureless anastomotic device to perform end-to-end anastomosis. Preliminary results in an animal model

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-8

  Ferrari, Enrico ^a   Tozzi, Piergiorgio ^a   Von Segesser, Ludwig Karl ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Suture technique; Sutureless anastomosis; Vascular connector

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOREIGN BODY; HEPARINIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SUTURE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, ANIMAL; SHEEP; STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 33846991657     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.137943     Document Type: Article

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