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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Những tác giả chính: Tewari, A, Srivastava, A, Sooriakumaran, P, Slevin, A, Grover, S, Waldman, O, Rajan, S, Herman, M, Berryhill, R, Leung, R
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 2010