Intraoperative ultrasonography during planned liver resections: Why are we still performing it?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1280-1283

  Ellsmere, James ^a   Kane, Robert ^a   Grinbaum, Ronit ^a   Edwards, Michael ^a   Schneider, Benjamin ^a   Jones, Daniel ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative ultrasonography; Liver neoplasms; Liver surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34547187073     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-9192-6     Document Type: Article

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