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The use of a silastic shield to protect an externalized biliary cannula
M F Kanz1, C Vanoye-Trevino, M T Moslen
1Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550.
Laboratory Animals
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A simple shield made of a folded silastic sheet is described for the protection of the externalized portion of a permanent biliary cannula in rats. Advantages of this shield are its light weight, flexibility, transparency, and ease of resealing for repeated interruption of hepatobiliary circulation. Since the shield is positioned around rather than being a segment of the cannula, a single length of tubing can be used.