The use of electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system in minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT)

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 493-497

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a   Rovera, Francesca ^a   Dionigi, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dissection; Electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system; Hemostasis; Incision length; Mini invasive video assisted thyroidectomy; MIVAT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISSECTION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROTHERMAL BIPOLAR VESSEL SEALING SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCISION; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE VIDEO ASSISTED THYROIDECTOMY; NODULAR GOITER; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149261712     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181775afd     Document Type: Article

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