SUTURELESS THYROIDECTOMY WITH BIPOLAR DIATHERMY

• Published in: Journal of evolution of medical and dental sciences Vol. 5; no. 42; pp. 2574 - 2577
• Main Authors: Ravi, Kumar H, Sunil, Kumar S.R, Gosavi, Siddharth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Akshantala Enterprises Private Limited 26.05.2016
• Subjects: Complications; Diathermy; Surgery; Thyroidectomy
• ISSN: 2278-4748; 2278-4802
• DOI: 10.14260/jemds/2016/602

The thyroid gland is one of the most vascular organs in the body and surgical resection mandates meticulous surgical technique and haemostasis. The rate of complications of thyroid surgeries were very high earlier but with the advent of ligasure, harmonic scalpel and bipolar surgical diathermy complications have reduced. In this study, we have used bipolar surgical diathermy. MATERIALS 116 patients with thyroid swelling attending surgical OPD in Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre during the period of 2011-2015 were included in the study. Proper preoperative workup was done and sutureless thyroidectomy surgeries were done using bipolar surgical diathermy. Patients were reviewed for any complications following thyroidectomy like haemorrhage, hypocalcaemia and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. RESULTS Out of 116 patients who underwent sutureless thyroidectomy none of them had any primary, secondary or reactionary haemorrhage, one patient who underwent total thyroidectomy for follicular carcinoma had transient hypocalcaemia. CONCLUSION Sutureless thyroidectomy is a very good surgical practice with bipolar surgical diathermy and it permits low postoperative complications and cost effectiveness. KEYWORDS Sutureless Thyroidectomy, Bipolar Diathermy.