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Trocar

Known as: Trocars 
A trocar is a sharp-pointed instrument used with a cannula for piercing a vessel or chamber to facilitate insertion of the cannula.
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Surgical Instruments

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TROCAR, LARYNGEALTrocar Device Component

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Review
2013
Review
2013
Robotic right colectomy using the Da Vinci Single‐Site® platform: case report
While single‐port laparoscopy for abdominal surgery is technically challenging, the Da Vinci Single‐Site® robotic surgery… 
2011
2011
Evaluation of a novel single-port robotic platform in the cadaver model for the performance of various procedures in gynecologic oncology.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
[Trocar site hernias. A rare but potentially dangerous complication of laparoscopic surgery].
With increasing numbers of laparoscopic procedures more postoperative trocar site hernias can be expected. This complication of… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Laparoscopic bowel injuries: forty litigated gynaecological cases in Canada.
Review
2001
Review
2001
Survey of laparoscopic entry injuries provoking litigation.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Efficacy of establishment of pneumoperitoneum with the Veress needle, Hasson trocar, and modified blunt trocar (TrocDoc): a randomized study.
PURPOSE To compare three techniques of establishment of pneumoperitoneum for efficacy: the Veress needle/first trocar, the Hasson… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
High-Pressure Trocar Insertion Technique
Background: The majority of laparoscopic complications occur at the time of Veress needle and trocar insertion. Although not very… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Bryostatin 1 down-regulates mdr1 and potentiates vincristine cytotoxicity in diffuse large cell lymphoma xenografts.
The down-regulation of multidrug resistance (mdr1) gene expression as detected by competitive reverse transcription-PCR and the… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A posterior lumbar approach for retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy: assessment of surgical efficacy.
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Outpatient Laparoscope Sterilization Under Local Anesthesia
One hundred outpatient laparoscope bilateral partial salpingectomies were performed under local anesthesia during 1971. The… 
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