title: Use of staplers in pulmonary surgery.
abstract: Stapling devices have helped reduce the incidence of bronchopleural fistulas after pulmonary resection. They have also simplified the resection of lung parenchyma and the closure of large-caliber blood vessels in the hilum of the lung.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001980:Bronchi / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014945:Wound Healing