Concepts for completely absorbable wound closing rivets and prototype manufacturing

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 289-292

  Aguib, Heba ^a   Lueth, T ^b  

^a MiMed   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorbable materials; Endoscopy; Gastrointestinal tract; Wound closure

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ENDOSCOPY; MANUFACTURE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; RIVETS; SURGERY;

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; MINIMAL INVASIVE SURGERY; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; PROTOTYPE MANUFACTURING; WOUND CLOSURE;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77949379077     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03906-5_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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