Principles and initial experience of a new device for dissection and hemostasis

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-65

  Gozen A S ^a   Teber, D ^a   Rassweiler, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gyrus Trissector; Laparoscopy; Plasmakinetic energy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLOOD CLOTTING; DEVICE; DISSECTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSURGERY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; UROLOGY;

DISSECTION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROSURGERY; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33847258686     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645700701191537     Document Type: Review

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