title: Simulated use of the "grasping tie" as for colo-rectostomy after low rectal resection.
abstract: Simulated test of effectiveness of the original tool grasping tie, technically already illustrated in two previous papers listed in bibliography, for fixing a spongy rubber tube, simulating a rectal stump on the anvil's axle of a circular stapler, by tightening over it a nylon ribbon slip-knot (the tie). After connecting the anvil to the stapler head through an other spongy rubber tube simulating a colonic loop, and the firing of the stapler, it is demonstrated the correct circular anastomosis achievable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental and Clinical Surgical Science, Division of General Surgery, SS. Annunziata Clinical Hospital, Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio di Chieti. picardi@unich.it
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authors.lastname: Picardi
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D003106:Colon / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery*