Energy based devices and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: The need for safer instruments

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 394, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 579-580

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIP; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENERGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; PARATHYROID GLAND; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE REMOVAL; THERMAL INJURY; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA;

ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 67749120395     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0454-8     Document Type: Letter

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