Do manual assisting maneuvers increase speed and technical performance in robotically sutured coronary bypass graft anastomoses?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1715-1718

  Bonatti, J ^a   Alfadlhi, J ^a   Schachner, T ^a   Bonaros, N ^a   Rutzler E ^a   Laufer, G ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass; Coronary artery disease; Endoscopic surgery; Grafting; Robotic surgery; Wet lab model

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPICARDIUM; HEART; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MANUAL ASSISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL ERROR; SUTURING METHOD; SWINE; TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOSCOPY; ROBOTICS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SWINE;

EID: 34547898700     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9233-9     Document Type: Article

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