Comparing bipolar electrothermal device and endostapler in endoscopic lung wedge resection

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-14

  Kovács, Ottó ^a   Szántó, Zoltán ^a,b   Krasznai, Géza ^a   Herr, György ^a  

^a Department of Thoracic Vascular and General Surgery   (Hungary)

^b Department of Surgery   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ligasure; Low costs; Solitary pulmonary nodules; Video assisted thoracoscopy; Wedge resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DEHYDRATION; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPLER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; SURGICAL STAPLERS; SURGICAL STAPLING; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650133661     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.199307     Document Type: Article

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