Use of a novel absorbable barbed plastic surgical suture enables a "self-cinching" technique of vesicourethral anastomosis during robot-assisted prostatectomy and improves anastomotic times.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate a novel technique of self-cinching anastomosis using a barbed and looped suture during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a feasibility study of 50 consecutive patients who underwent this novel self-cinching anastomotic technique using...
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| Médium: | Journal article |
| Jazyk: | English |
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2010
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