Compression anastomosis, the optimal hollow viscus anastomosis: Are we there yet?

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 423-425

  Kopelman, Doron ^a  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; NICKEL; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; TITANIUM;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COMPRESSION; EDITORIAL; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HOLLOW VISCUS ANASTOMOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; SEROSA; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SUTURES;

EID: 34447330981     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.4.4.423     Document Type: Editorial

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