Ligasure versus cold knife tonsillectomy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1591-1594

  Lachanas, Vassilios A ^a   Prokopakis, Emmanuel P ^a   Bourolias, Constantinos A ^a   Karatzanis, Alexander D ^a   Malandrakis, Stylianos G ^a   Helidonis, Emmanuel S ^a   Velegrakis, George A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Department of Otorhinolaryngology ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Cold knife; Ligasure; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD KNIFE TONSILLECTOMY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGASURE TONSILLECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERITONSILLAR EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24944497989     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000172044.57285.b6     Document Type: Article

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