Sutureless Versus Conventional Thyroidectomy

Mansoura University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Goiter

Treatments: Procedure: Conventional thyroidectomy; Procedure: Harmonic scalpel thyroidectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03615456

mansoura62

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was prospective randomized double-blinded clinical trial on patients with thyroid disease who underwent thyroidectomy in the general surgery department, Mansoura university hospitals during the period of February 2017 to February 2018.Two techniques for vascular sealing were compared: conventional tying and harmonic scalpel

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients of both genders aging above 18 years presented with primary thyroid diseases requiring thyroidectomy including:

• Solitary thyroid nodule (STN)
• Multinodular goiter
• Controlled toxic goiter
• Inflammatory goiter (thyroiditis)
• Early-stage thyroid cancer.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients unfit for surgery
• patients unwilling to participate in the study
• Pregnant women
• Thyroid cancer with lymph node or distant metastasis.
• Patients with psychiatric disturbances.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional thyroidectomy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Thyroidectomy with ligation and division of thyroid vessels

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional thyroidectomy

Harmonic scalpel thyroidectomy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Thyroidectomy with sealing of thyroid vessels using harmonic scalpel

Treatment:

Procedure: Harmonic scalpel thyroidectomy