Modified lateral neck lymphadenectomy: Prospective randomized study comparing harmonic scalpel with clamp-and-tie technique

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-64

  Miccoli, Paolo ^a   Materazzi, Gabriele ^a   Fregoli, Lorenzo ^a   Panicucci, Erica ^a   Kunz Martinez, Walter ^a   Berti, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MALE; NECK TUMOR; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCALPEL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 58149096574     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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