A laparoscopic knot-tying device for minimally invasive cardiac surgery

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 626-630

  Jernigan, Shaphan R ^a   Chanoit, Guillaume ^b   Veeramani, Arun ^a   Owen, Stephen B ^a   Hilliard, Matthew ^b   Cormier, Denis ^a   Laffitte, Bryan ^b   Buckner, Gregory ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated suturing; Fixation; Knot tying; Minimally invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTRONICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNOT TYING DEVICE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SUTURING METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH; TROCAR;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76449103952     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.09.024     Document Type: Article

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