Hand-assisted laparoscopic esophagojejunostomy using newly developed purse-string suture instrument "Endo-PSI"

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-110

  Usui, Shinsuke ^a,b   Ito, Koji ^a   Hiranuma, Susumu ^b   Takiguchi, Noriaki ^b   Matsumoto, Akio ^b   Iwai, Takehisa ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophagojejunostomy; Gastric cancer; Laparoscopy assisted total gastrectomy; Purse string instrument

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGOJEJUNOSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIGATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ESOPHAGOPLASTY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL TAPE; SUTURES;

EID: 34247496467     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318030acd6     Document Type: Article

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