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Khirurgiia (Mosk)
; (5): 79-81, 2004.
Article
in Russian
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15159766
ABSTRACT
New suture compression device (SCD) is developed and used in 119 patients for formation of esophageal-intestinal (10), esophageal-gastric (4), gastro-intestinal (10), intestinal-intestinal (19), intestinal-colon (18) and colon-colon (58) anastomosis. Insufficiency of sutures was seen in 2 (1.68%) patients after left-sided hemicolectomy (1) and resection of the sygmoid colon. One patient died, lethality was 0.84%.