Surgical staplers: toy or tool?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2012 English Publisher:WileyJournal:In Practice, volume 34, pages 472-479 (issn: 0263-841X, eissn: 2042-7689,

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Authors: Vicky Lipscomb;

doi: 10.1136/inp.e5746

Surgical staplers: toy or tool?

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Surgical staplers may be used in a wide variety of skin, abdominal, thoracic and other veterinary surgical procedures. This article provides an overview of the applications of surgical stapling in small animal veterinary practice, and describes the various types of surgical staplers used in veterinary surgery and how to operate them.

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