Electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system vs. harmonic scalpel in colorectal laparoscopic surgery: A prospective, randomized study

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 657-661

  Rimonda, Roberto ^a   Arezzo, Alberto ^a   Garrone, Corrado ^a   Allaix, Marco Ettore ^a   Giraudo, Giuseppe ^a   Morino, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Dissection; Electrosurgery; Laparoscopic surgery; Surgical hemostasis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON PERFORATION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DIVERTICULITIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROSURGERY; ELECTROTHERMAL BIPOLAR VESSEL SEALING SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS ABSCESS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCTITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SAFETY; SCALPEL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; VEIN INJURY; BLEEDING; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM; STATISTICS;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM;

EID: 66849115094     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181a0a70a     Document Type: Article

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