Svensk definition
Elektrokirurgisk teknik för behandling av blödningar, avlägsnande av tumörer och slemhinnesår, och behandling av refraktära arytmier.
Electrocoagulation
Elektrokoagulering
Engelsk definition
Procedures using an electrically heated wire or scalpel to treat hemorrhage (e.g., bleeding ulcers) and to ablate tumors, mucosal lesions, and refractory arrhythmias. It is different from ELECTROSURGERY which is used more for cutting tissue than destroying and in which the patient is part of the electric circuit.
Svenska synonymer
Diatermiknivkirurgi
Engelska synonymer
Electrocautery — Thermocoagulation — Galvanocautery — Surgical Diathermy — Diathermy, Surgical — Endocavitary Fulguration — Fulguration, Endocavitary