Abstract
INTRODUCTION: One of the routinely performed surgery is thyroidectomy. Rates of complications have decreased because of new technologies that are being invented likeligasure, harmonic scalpel and bipolar surgical diathermy. In this study we used bipolar surgical diathermy for thyroidectomy instead of ligasure and harmonic scalpel which are costly and available in higher centers only. MATERIALS: 40 patients with thyroid swelling attending surgical OPD between the period of 2010-2012 were selected. Proper preoperative workup was done local ethical committee approval was taken .thyroidectomy done using bipolar surgical diathermy .patients were reviewed for any complications following thyroidectomy likehaemorrhage, hypocalcemia and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. RESULTS: Out of 40 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 .
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