Ligasure versus clamp-and-tie in thyroidectomy: A single-center experience

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1035-1041

  Çakabay, Bahri ^a   Sevinç, Mert Mahsuni ^a   Gömceli, Ísmail ^a   Yenidoǧan, Erdinç ^a   Ülkü, Abdullah ^a   Koç, Semsettin ^a  

^a Diyarbakir Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clamp and tie; Ligasure; Suture ligation; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SURGICAL INFECTION; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949890354     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12325-009-0078-6     Document Type: Article

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