Modified radical mastectomy with axillary dissection using the electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-580

  Manouras, Andreas ^a   Markogiannakis, Haridimos ^a,b   Genetzakis, Michael ^a   Filippakis, George M ^a   Lagoudianakis, Emmanuel E ^a   Kafiri, Georgia ^a   Filis, Konstantinos ^a   Zografos, George C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; BURN; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; NECROSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45549091318     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.6.575     Document Type: Article

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