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Investigators at Zhejiang University, Medical Department zero in on surgery

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, September 5th, 2010

"Intestinal anastomosis is a major technical component of gastrointestinal procedures. We have developed a new procedure of colonic anastomosis with a degradable stent," scientists in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China report.

"This article evaluates this procedure. Forty pigs were assigned randomly to a stent group (n = 20) and a control group (n = 20). A colonic anastomosis with a degradable stent was performed in the stent group, and hand-sewn anastomosis was performed in the control group. Pigs of each group were divided evenly into 4 subgroups according to time of death (days 3, 7, and 14, and month 10 postoperatively) to evaluate the healing of anastomosis. All...

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