Two-surgeon technique using saline-linked electric cautery and ultrasonic surgical aspirator in living donor hepatectomy: its safety and efficacy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa ^a   Eguchi, Susumu ^a   Yamanouchi, Kosho ^a   Tokai, Hirotaka ^a   Hidaka, Masaaki ^a   Soyama, Akihiko ^a   Miyazaki, Kensuke ^a   Hamasaki, Koji ^a   Tajima, Yoshitsugu ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Liver transplantation; Living donor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; ULTRASOUND; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; CAUTERY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 58649118679     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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