Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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J. Gastrointest. Surg. · Mar 2013
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyLigaSure™ vs. conventional dissection techniques in pancreatic surgery--a prospective randomised single-centre trial.
Surgical procedures in pancreatic surgery are well established, but still involve time-consuming manual dissection. We compared the use of LigaSure with conventional dissection techniques in pancreatic surgery in a prospective randomised single-centre trial (registration number: NCT00850291). ⋯ Our data indicate that the LigaSure device is equivalent to conventional dissection modalities in pancreatic surgery.