Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Reply to G. Dionigi’s letter: energy based devices and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: the need for safer instruments

  • Letter to the Editor
  • Published:
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Barczynski M, Konturek A, Cichon S (2008) Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) with and without use of harmonic scalpel—a randomized study. Langenbeck’s Arch Surg 393:647–654

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Henry JF (2008) Minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery is not a question of length of the incision. Langenbecks Arch Surg 393:621–626. doi:10.1007/s00423-008-0406-3

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Lombardi CP, Raffaelli M, Princi P, De Crea C, Bellantone R (2006) Video-assisted thyroidectomy: report on the experience of a single center in more than four hundred cases. World J Surg 30:794–800. doi:10.1007/s00268-005-0390-5

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Miccoli P, Materazzi G, Berti P (2008) New technologies in surgery: diagnosis and treatment of complications of MIVAT (minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy). Pol J Surg 80:809–818

    Google Scholar 

  5. Miccoli P, Minuto MN, Ugolini C, Pisano R, Fosso A, Berti P (2008) Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy for benign thyroid disease: an evidence-based review. World J Surg 32:1333–1340. doi:10.1007/s00268-008-9479-y

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Sgourakis G, Sotiropoulos GC, Neuhäuser M, Musholt TJ, Karaliotas C, Lang H (2008) Comparison between minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy and conventional thyroidectomy: is there any evidence-based information? Thyroid 18:721–727. doi:10.1089/thy.2008.0028

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Harold KL, Pollinger H, Matthews BD, Kercher KW, Sing RF, Heniford BT (2003) Comparison of ultrasonic energy, bipolar thermal energy, and vascular clips for the hemostasis of small-, medium-, and large-sized arteries. Surg Endosc 17:1228–1230. doi:10.1007/s00464-002-8833-7

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Endocrine Surgery, 3rd Chair of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, 37 Pradnicka Street, 31-202, Krakow, Poland

    Marcin Barczynski

Authors
  1. Marcin Barczynski
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Marcin Barczynski.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Barczynski, M. Reply to G. Dionigi’s letter: energy based devices and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: the need for safer instruments. Langenbecks Arch Surg 394, 581–582 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-008-0450-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-008-0450-z

Keywords

Search

Navigation