Use of a diathermy system in thyroid surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 997-1000

  Kiriakopoulos, Andreas ^a   Dimitrios, Tsakayannis ^a   Dimitrios, Linos ^a  

^a HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIATHERMY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIATHERMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4444232348     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.9.997     Document Type: Article

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