A randomized, prospective, parallel group study comparing the Harmonic Scalpel to electrocautery in thyroidectomy

Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-341

  Cordón, Carlos ^a   Fajardo, Rafael ^a   Ramírez, Jaqueline ^a   Herrera, Miguel F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CALCIUM; KETOROLAC; NALBUPHINE;

AGE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; LIGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SCALPEL; STANDARD; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; WEIGHT; WOUND DRAINAGE;

EID: 14644394238     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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