Laparoscopic Heller myotomy using hook electrocautery: A safe, simple, and inexpensive alternative

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 602-605

  Roller, Joshua E ^a   De La Fuente, Sebastián G ^b   Demaria, Eric J ^b   Pryor, Aurora D ^b  

^a Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Achalasia; Clinical papers trials research; Digestive; Esophageal

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CAUTERIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; EVALUATION; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; SAFETY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; FEMALE; FUNDOPLICATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60449117938     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9994-9     Document Type: Article

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