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Distal thermal injury from monopolar electrosurgery
A H Ata1, T J Bellemore, J A Meisel
1Department of General Surgery, Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, NH 03102.
Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
Lysis of infrahepatic adhesions during laparoscopic cholecystectomy was attempted by using monopolar electrocautery. The flow of current was seen to follow an unpredictable pathway and almost causing a thermal injury to an adjacent small bowel loop. A brief discussion of pertinent bioelectrical principles is also presented.