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  • Title: [Results of a French survey on the use of surgical staplers in gastrointestinal surgery].
    Author: Hollender LF, Bahnini J.
    Journal: Langenbecks Arch Chir; 1987; 372():85-7. PubMed ID: 3431308.
    Abstract:
    Results of an inquiry in 40 French hospitals (28 universities and 12 private clinics). With 2 exceptions, all questioned surgeons use stapler instruments in oesophagus, stomach and colon rectal surgery. 50% of the surgeons noticed the same percentage of fistulae by stapler as by hand suturing and the severity of these leakages was more or less identical in both series. As contraindications for using stapler machines oedema of the visceral wall, small size of the lumen, important visceral distension and insufficient practice with such instruments, were mentioned.
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