Energy-Based Ligation of Pulmonary Vessels: A Six-Year Experience With Ultrasonic Shears in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy and Segmentectomy Abby White, DO, Suden Kucukak, MD, Daniel N. Lee, BS, Scott J. Swanson, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 101, Issue 4, Pages 1334-1337 (April 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.10.070 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 The non-active blade of the Harmonic scalpel (Harmonic Ace, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Somerville, NJ) has 2 hash marks 5 mm apart, allowing in vivo size estimation of vessel or tissue diameter. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 101, 1334-1337DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.10.070) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions