Set of instruments for innovative, safe and sterile sigmoid access for natural-orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 185-189

  Can, Salman ^a   Fiolka, Adam ^a   Wilhelm, Dirk ^a   Burian, Maria ^a   Von Delius, Stefan ^a   Meining, Alexander ^a   Schneider, Armin ^a   Feussner, Hubertus ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopic instruments; Transcolonic approach; Transluminal surgery

Indexed keywords

SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN ANATOMY; IN-VIVO; PERITONEAL CAVITIES; SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS; TRANSCOLONIC APPROACH; TRANSLUMINAL SURGERY;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; COLON SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; SIGMOID; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TROCAR;

CADAVER; COLON, SIGMOID; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; STERILIZATION;

EID: 49949112715     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2008.028     Document Type: Article

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