Comparing the ultrasonically activated scalpel (harmonic) with high-frequency electrocautery for postoperative serous drainage in massive weight loss surgery [11]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1092-1093

  Stoff, Alexander ^a,b   Reichenberger, Matthias A ^a   Richter, Dirk F ^a  

^a Dreifaltigkeits Hospital   (Germany)

^b Dreifaltigkeits Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETTER; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SEROMA; STUDENT T TEST; THIGH; ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND FLUID; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; CATHETER ABLATION; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEROMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 34247185187     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000278224.14221.c9     Document Type: Letter

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