Histological Evaluation of Cold Versus Hot Cutting: Clinical Impact on Margin Status for Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy

Journal of Urology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2348-2352

  Phillips, Jason M ^a   Narula, Navneet ^a   Deane, Leslie A ^a   Box, Geoffrey N ^a   Lee, Hak J ^a   Ornstein, David K ^a   McDougall, Elspeth M ^a   Clayman, Ralph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

kidney; laparoscopy; nephrectomy; surgical instruments; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD CLOT; CANCER CELL; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCISION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; SCALPEL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; TUMOR CELL;

COLD TEMPERATURE; ELECTROSURGERY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEPHRECTOMY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 55549095974     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.08.029     Document Type: Article

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