Tissue preserving hepatectomy by a vessel sealing device

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-168

  Tepetes, Konstantinos ^a,b   Christodoulidis, Gregory ^a   Spyridakis, E Michael ^a   Chatzitheofilou, Constantine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atlas ligasure; Liver resection; Vessel sealing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 38649096271     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20889     Document Type: Article

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