LigaSure vs clamp-and-tie technique to achieve hemostasis in total thyroidectomy for benign multinodular goiter: A prospective randomized study

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-156

  Saint Marc, Olivier ^a   Cogliandolo, Andrea ^b   Piquard, Arnaud ^a   Famà, Fausto ^b   Pidoto, Rocco Roberto ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER RÉGIONAL D ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCALCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; OPERATION DURATION; PARATHYROID TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CALCIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; GOITER, NODULAR; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847162145     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.2.150     Document Type: Article

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