Radiofrequency-assisted hemostasis in a trauma model: A new indication for a bipolar device

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 421-426

  Zacharoulis, Dimitris ^a   Lazoura, Olga ^a   Sioka, Eleni ^a   Tzovaras, George ^a   Rountas, Christos ^a   Spiropoulos, Spiridon ^a   Zahari, Eleni ^a   Chatzitheofilou, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; HEMOSTASIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SWINE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANIMAL; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; DISEASE MODEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMORRHAGE; LIVER; SPLEEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, STAB;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; LIVER; MALE; SPLEEN; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 77954179483     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2009.0324     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Feliciano DV. Surgery for liver trauma. Surg Clin North Am 1989;69:273-284.
2. Luna GK, Dellinger EP. Nonoperative observation therapy for splenic injuries: A safe therapeutic option? Am J Surg 1987;153:462-468.
3. Shackford SR, Molin M. Management of splenic injuries. Surg Clin North Am 1990;70:595-620.
4. Jiao LR, Tierris I, Ayav A, et al. A new technique for spleen preservation with radiofrequency. Surgery 2006;140:464-466.
5. Weber JC, Navarra G, Jiao LR, Nicholls JP, Jensen SL, Habib NA. New technique for liver resection using heat coagulative necrosis. Ann Surg 2002;236:560-563.
6. Zacharoulis D, Katsogridakis E, Hatzitheofilou C. A case of splenic abscess after radiofrequency ablation. World J Gastroenterol 2006;12:4256-4258.
7. Swindle MM. Anesthesia in swine. Charles River Tech Bull 1985;3:3.
8. Flecknell PA. Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia. New York: Academic Press, 1996.
9. Yasuda N, Targ AG, Eger EI, 2nd, Johnson BH, Weiskopf RB. Pharmacokinetics of desflurane, sevoflurane, isoflurane, and halothane in pigs. Anesth Analg 1990;71: 340-348.
10. Moore EE, Cogbill TH, Jurkovich GJ, Shackford SR, Malangoni MA, Champion HR. Organ injury scaling: Spleen and liver (1994 revision). J Trauma 1995;38:323-324.
11. Uranus S, Pfeifer J. Nonoperative treatment of blunt splenic injury. World J Surg 2001;25:1405-1407.
12. Holden A. Abdomen-interventions for solid organ injury. Injury 2008;39:1275-1289.
13. Kaneko H, Otsuka Y, Tsuchiya M, Tamura A, Katagiri T, Yamazaki K. Application of devices for safe laparoscopic hepatectomy. HPB (Oxford) 2008;10:219-224.
14. Curley SA, Izzo F, Delrio P, et al. Radiofrequency ablation of unresectable primary and metastatic hepatic malignancies: Results in 123 patients. Ann Surg 1999;230:1-8.
15. Gananadha S, Wulf S, Morris DL. Safety and efficacy of radiofrequency ablation of brain: A potentially minimally invasive treatment for brain tumours. Minim Invas Neurosurg 2004;47:325-328.
16. Suh RD, Wallace AB, Sheehan RE, Heinze SB, Goldin JG. Unresectable pulmonary malignancies: CT-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation-preliminary results. Radiology 2003;229:821-829.
17. Wood BJ, Abraham J, Hvizda JL, Alexander HR, Fojo T. Radiofrequency ablation of adrenal tumors and adrenocortical carcinoma metastases. Cancer 2003;97:554-560.
18. Habib NA, Spalding D, Navarra G, Nicholls J. How we do a bloodless partial splenectomy. Am J Surg 2003;186:164-166.
19. Velanovich V, Weaver M. Partial splenectomy using a coupled saline-radiofrequency hemostatic device. Am J Surg 2003;185:66-68.
20. Pikoulis E, Felekouras E, Papaconstantinou I, et al. A novel spleen-preserving laparoscopic technique using radiofrequency ablation in a porcine model. Surg Endosc 2005;19:1329-1332. (Pubitemid 41456116)
21. Felekouras E, Kontos M, Pissanou T, et al. A new spleenpreserving technique using radiofrequency ablation technology. J Trauma 2004;57:1225-1229.
22. Yao P, Gunasegaram A, Ladd LA, Daniel S, Morris DL. An experimental study of the treatment of liver injury with In- Line RFA. HPB (Oxford) 2007;9:37-41.
23. Yekuo L, Shasha W, Feng H. Multipolar radiofrequency ablation in controlling hemorrhage from blunt liver trauma. Am J Emerg Med 2009;27:197-201.
24. Zacharoulis D, Tzovaras G, Rountas C, et al. Modified radiofrequency-assisted liver resection: A new device. J Surg Oncol 2007;96:254-257.