Sutureless Versus Conventional Thyroidectomy

Goiter Clinical Trial

Official title:

Sutureless Thyroidectomy Versus Conventional Thyroidectomy: Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03615456
• Other study ID #: mansoura62
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: May 12, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: February 2019
• Source: Mansoura University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: May 12, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: February 28, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Goiter

Intervention

Procedure:
• Conventional thyroidectomy
Thyroid vessels are ligated with sutures and divided
• Harmonic scalpel thyroidectomy
Thyroid vessels are sealed using harmonic scalpel device

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Mansoura university hospital	Mansourah	Dakahlia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mansoura University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Volume of postoperative drainage	The volume of fluid drained in the suction drain placed in the neck in milliliters	At 24 hours after surgery