Meta-analysis of the clamp-crushing technique for transection of the parenchyma in elective hepatic resection: Back to where we started?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 630-639

  Rahbari, Nuh N ^a   Koch, Moritz ^a   Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Motschall, Edith ^b   Bruckner, Thomas ^a   Weidmann, Kathrin ^a   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Weitz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CLAMP CRUSHING TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60449093000     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0266-7     Document Type: Article

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