Bioabsorbable device for small-caliber vessel anastomosis

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 494-501

  Ueda, Kazunori ^a   Mukai, Tomokazu ^b   Ichinose, Shizuko ^a   Koyama, Yoshihisa ^a   Takakuda, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kawasumi Laboratories Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BIODEGRADATION; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE GROWTH;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 77957266905     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20764     Document Type: Article

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