title: The Grasping Tie: a novel device to avoid the purse string and to facilitate low colorectal stapled anastomoses.
authors.affiliation: First Division of General Surgery, SS. Annunziata Hospital, G. D'Annunzio Medical School, Chieti, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Picardi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pescatori
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000295:instrumentation; D003082:Colectomy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D017792:Surgical Stapling / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*