Sticking with synthetic tissue sealants

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1556-1559

  Bluestein, Danny ^a   Slepian, Marvin J ^b  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; FIBRIN GLUE; HYDROPHOBIC LIGHT ACTIVATED ADHESIVE; POLY(GLYCEROL SEBACATE URETHANE); SURGICAL GLUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATERIALS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; THROMBOGENICITY; VISCOSITY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 84898634395     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr1400477     Document Type: Article

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