Novel knot tying technique for robot-assisted surgery

Canadian Journal of Urology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 6401-6403

  Guru, Khurshid A ^a   Sheikh, Mohd Raashid ^a   Raza, Syed J ^a   Stegemann, Andrew P ^a   Nyquist, John ^b  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Knot tying; Robotics; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SUTURING METHOD;

HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84874444409     PISSN: 11959479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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