Updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing conventional excisional haemorrhoidectomy with LigaSure for haemorrhoids

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-239

  Mastakov, M Y ^a   Buettner, P G ^a   Ho, Y H ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Haemorrhoidectomy; Haemorrhoids; LigaSure; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; DIATHERMY; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESSEL SEALING SYSTEM; WOUND HEALING;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEMORRHOIDS; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 52049093880     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-008-0426-6     Document Type: Article

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