Laser-welded endoscopic endoluminal repair of iatrogenic esophageal perforation: An animal model

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 713-717

  Bleier, Benjamin S ^a   Gratton, Michael A ^a   Leibowitz, Jason M ^a   Palmer, James N ^a   Newman, Jason G ^a   Cohen, Noam A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RABBIT; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HYALURONIC ACID; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LASER THERAPY; MANOMETRY; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; RABBITS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 54549092110     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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