Radiofrequency-assisted liver resection with a comb-shaped bipolar device versus clamp crushing: A clinical study

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 407-414

  Galizia, Gennaro ^a   Castellano, Paolo ^a   Pinto, Margherita ^a   Zamboli, Anna ^a   Orditura, Michele ^a   De Vita, Ferdinando ^a   Pignatelli, Carlo ^a   Lieto, Eva ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

biomedical engineering; liver surgery; surgical oncology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; CLAMP CRUSHING PROCEDURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GENERATOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY ASSISTED LIVER RESECTION; RELIABILITY; STENOSIS;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 84868560722     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350611430672     Document Type: Article

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