LigaSure versus clamp-and-tie thyroidectomy for benign nodular disease

Head and Neck

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 903-909

  Petrakis, Ioannis E ^a   Kogerakis, Nektarios E ^a   Lasithiotakis, Kostas G ^a   Vrachassotakis, Nikolaos ^a   Chalkiadakis, Georgios E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

LigaSure; Multinodular goiter; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLAMP AND TIE TECHNIQUE; DEVICE; DIATHERMY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; NODULAR GOITER; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CONSTRICTION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644246526     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20073     Document Type: Article

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