Comparison of LigaSure vessel sealing system, harmonic scalpel, and conventional hemostasis in total thyroidectomy

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 496-501

  Pons, Yoann ^a   Gauthier, Jérome ^a   Ukkola Pons, Elsa ^a   Clément, Philippe ^a   Roguet, Eric ^a   Poncet, Jean Luc ^a   Conessa, Claude ^a  

^a University of Paris Descartes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCALPEL; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRAINAGE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 70349310087     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.06.745     Document Type: Article

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