The safety of energy-based devices in open thyroidectomy: A prospective, randomised study comparing the LigaSure™ (LF1212) and the Harmonic® FOCUS

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 817-823

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a   Rausei, Stefano ^a   Frattini, Francesco ^a   Ferrari, Cesare Carlo ^a   Mangano, Alberto ^a   Leotta, Andrea ^a   Franchin, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy based devices; Hypocalcaemia; Morbidity; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; ENERGY-BASED DEVICE; FEMALE; HARMONIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGASURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE LESION; OPEN THYROIDECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863982226     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0898-0     Document Type: Article

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