• Department of The Third General Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, Fujian 364000, P.R.China;
WANG Qicai, Email: wangqc88@163.com
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Objective  To investigate the value of bipolar coagulation forceps combined with meticulous capsular dissection technique in thyroidectomy. Methods  Information of 203 patients with thyroid neoplasms who underwent thyroidectomy in Longyan First Hospital from January 2014 to July 2015, were collected retrospectively. Patients were divide into control group (98 patients who had received conventional thyroidectomy) and observation group (105 patients who had received bipolar coagulation forceps combined with meticulous capsular dissection technique in thyroidectomy) according to the surgery type. Then comparison of 2 groups in incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, temporary hypocalcemia, temporary or permanent hypoparathyroidism, serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) and serum calcium was performed. Results  All the operation of 203 patients went smoothly, and no operative death happened. Operation time of control group and observation group showed no obvious difference〔(68.24±16.59) minvs. (64.78±14.20) min,P>0.05〕, but the intraoperative blood loss of control group was more than observation group〔(25.44±8.35) mLvs. (16.58±5.44) mL,P<0.05〕. There were 25 patients suffered from temporary hypocalcemia after operation, including 18 patients in control group and 7 patients in observation group. There were 38 patients suffered from temporary hypoparathyroidism after operation. including 24 patients in control group and 14 patients in observation group. The incidences of temporary hypocalcemia (χ2=6.426,P<0.05) and temporary hypoparathyroidism (χ2=4.147,P<0.05) were both lower in observation group than corresponding index of control group. But no one suffered from permanent hypoparathyroidism. There were 17 patients existent hoarseness in the control group and 14 patients in observation group, but no one had cough caused by superior laryngeal nerve injury of all the patients, and the incidence of hoarseness of 2 groups had no significant difference (χ2=0.637,P>0.05). Conclusions  Bipolar coagulation forceps combined with meticulous capsular dissection technique in thyroidectomy could reduce the temporary hypocalcemia and temporary hypoparathyroidism, and provide the better protection to the blood supply of parathyroid. In addition, bipolar coagulation forceps could reduce thermal injury and heighten hemostasis. So, it is worthy to perform bipolar coagulation forceps combined with meticulous capsular dissection technique in thyroidectomy.

Citation: ZHANG Dejie, LIN Guoliang, ZHANG Ming, YANG Xianrong, ZHANG Ditian, LIAO Mingxing, WANG Qicai. Analysis on the superiority of bipolar coagulation forceps combined with meticulous capsular dissection technique in thyroidectomy. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2017, 24(3): 322-327. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.201607055 Copy

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