Efficacy of Subfascial Approach in Thyroidectomy to Quality of Life in Thyroid Disease Patients

Samsung Medical Center

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: subfascial flap; Procedure: subplatysmal flap

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01616316

2009-08-058

Details and patient eligibility

About

Subfascial approach method in thyroidectomy maybe result in better quality of life than conventional approach method in thyroid disease patients

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• micropapillary thyroid cancer

Exclusion criteria

• lateral neck lymph node metastasis
• severe thyroiditis
• goiter
• reoperation
• extrathyroidal extension

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

subfascial flap

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: subfascial flap

Subplatysmal flap

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: subplatysmal flap