Sutureless open low anterior resection with total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer with the use of the electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Manouras, Andreas ^a   Filippakis, George M ^a   Tsekouras, Dimitrios ^a   Lagoudianakis, Emmanuel ^a   Genetzakis, Michael ^a   Markogiannakis, Haridimos ^a   Kafiri, Georgia ^b   Pararas, Nikolaos ^a   Papanikolaou, Dimitrios ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos G ^a   Katsaragakis, Stilianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system; Hemostasis; Low anterior resection; Lymph vessel sealing; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROTHERMAL BIPOLAR VESSEL SEALER; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH VESSEL; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSELS; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248228087     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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