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Surgical Staplers  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Staplers, Surgical
  • Stapler, Surgical
  • Surgical Stapler

Scope note

  • Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995)

History note

  • 66(64)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013528

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