Harmonic Focus™ versus "knot tying" during total thyroidectomy: A randomized trial

Updates in Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 277-281

  Gentileschi, Paolo ^a   D'Ugo, Stefano ^a   Iaculli, Edoardo ^a   Gaspari, Achille Lucio ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic Focus; Thyroid; Thyroidectomy; Ultrasonic scalpel

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUTURING METHOD; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84859414804     PISSN: 2038131X     EISSN: 20383312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-011-0099-y     Document Type: Article

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