caa a22 4500 388083700 CHVBK 20180307125224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022215100143129 doi S0022215100143129 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022215100143129 Drainage after thyroid surgery: a prospective randomized study [Elektronische Daten] Between November, 1996 and May, 1997 a series of 100 consecutive unselected patients undergoing all types of thyroid surgery - including even those inducing large dead space e.g. substernal goitre and carcinoma thyroid with recurrent nerve dissection - were randomly allotted to either receive drainage (n = 43) or not (n = 57). Patients with cervical dissection for lymph node metastasis were not included. Severe intra-operative haemorrhage was not a reason for exclusion. No complications such as haematoma or seroma were found in the undrained group whereas only minor complications such as haematoma (n = 4) were noted in the drained group. Whatever the group, none of the patients required reexploration. The difference in overall hospital stay (1.72 days in the group of undrained patients versus 2.09 days in the drained group) was not statistically significant. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1999 Thyroid gland, surgery nationallicence Drainage nationallicence randomized controlled trial nationallicence Debry Christian Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Leon Toulhadjian Hospital, Poissy, France. Renou Guy Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Leon Toulhadjian Hospital, Poissy, France. Fingerhut Abe Department of Surgery, Leon Toulhadjian Hospital, Poissy, France. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 113/1(1999-01), 49-51 0022-2151 113:1<49 1999 113 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100143129 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100143129 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Debry Christian Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Leon Toulhadjian Hospital, Poissy, France NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Renou Guy Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Leon Toulhadjian Hospital, Poissy, France NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fingerhut Abe Department of Surgery, Leon Toulhadjian Hospital, Poissy, France NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 113/1(1999-01), 49-51 0022-2151 113:1<49 1999 113 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge