In the past, it was generally advised that every patient undergoing thyroid surgery have a drain placed because of the fear of post-operative hematoma. In the past 9 years, we have performed 400 thyroidectomies. For the first 6 years, we drained the operative site in most of thyroid procedures. Howe
Selective use of drains in thyroid surgery
✍ Scribed by Luis Mauricio Hurtado-López; Sandra López-Romero; Carlofredo Rizzo-Fuentes; Felipe Rafael Zaldívar-Ramírez; Carlos Cervantes-Sánchez
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1043-3074
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