Gold medal forum winner: Clinical results using bioabsorbable staple line reinforcement for circular staplers

American Surgeon

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 462-467

  Jones, Wesley B ^a   Myers, Katherine M ^a   Traxler, L Brannon ^a   Bour, Eric S ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STAPLER; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURE ANCHOR; SUTURING METHOD; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL STAPLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449141891     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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