LigaSure in total thyroidectomy

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 495-498

  Cipolla, Calogero ^a,b   Graceffa, Giuseppa ^a   Sandonato, Luigi ^a   Fricano, Salvatore ^a   Vieni, Salvatore ^a   Latteri, Mario A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; LigaSure; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIATHERMY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LIGASURE; LYMPHOCYTIC THYROIDITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; DIATHERMY; FEMALE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 44449153841     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3665-7     Document Type: Article

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