Ligasure versus Ultracision® in thyroid surgery: A prospective randomized study

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 655-658

  Sartori, Paola Vincenza ^a,b   De Fina, Sergio ^a   Colombo, Giovanni ^a   Pugliese, Francesco ^a   Romano, Fabrizio ^a   Cesana, Giovanni ^a   Uggeri, Franco ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic scalpel; Hemostasis; Ligasure; Surgery; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HARMONIC SCALPEL; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NODULAR GOITER; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SCALPEL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROIDITIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 51449107607     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0386-3     Document Type: Article

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