Prospective randomized comparison of conventional instruments and the Harmonic Focus ® device in breast-conserving therapy for primary breast cancer

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-124

  Bohm D ^a   Kubitza, A ^a   Lebrecht, A ^a   Schmidt, M ^a   Gerhold Ay, A ^a   Battista, M ^a   Stewen, K ^a   Solbach, C ^a   Kolbl H ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast conserving surgery; Harmonic device

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLA; AXILLARY SEROMA; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DRAINAGE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HARMONIC INSTRUMENT; HEMATOMA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; SEROMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROMA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84855830040     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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