Ex vivo pneumostasis evaluation of a variable-height staple design

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 284-288

  Contini, Elizabeth ^a   Godek, Marisha L ^a   Whiffen, Jennifer M ^a   Bronson, Dwight G ^a  

^a Fundamental Biomedical Research Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Pneumostasis; Stapling; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EX VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; SURGICAL STAPLING; THICKNESS; VARIABLE HEIGHT STAPLE DESIGN;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; DOGS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; LUNG; MODELS, ANIMAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL STAPLERS; SURGICAL STAPLING; SWINE;

EID: 84887110277     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e3182a6912a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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