Cesarean delivery and hysterotomy using an absorbable stapling device.
The absorbable stapling device was used in 22 hysterotomies in gravid rhesus monkeys. The efficacy of the device, subsequent fertility and delivery route, fetal effects, and pathohistology were all studied. No statistically significant difference between experimental and control animals was noted.
Bond
S J
SJ
Fetal Treatment Program, University of California, San Francisco.
Harrison
M R
MR
Slotnick
R N
RN
Anderson
J
J
Flake
A W
AW
Adzick
N S
NS
D000818:Animals; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D011247:Pregnancy; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D014599:Uterus / Q000601:surgery*