NCT01338597

Impact of Dissection Area on the Clinical Outcome of Endoscopic Thyroidectomy

Clinical Benefits of Reduced Subcutaneous Dissection in Endoscopic Thyroidectomy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Second Military Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether reduced subcutaneous dissection area could offer patients more clinical benefits.

Detailed description

To create a working place in the chest wall is an inevitable step of endoscopic thyroidectomy. Large subcutaneous area was considered a drawback of endoscopic thyroidectomy. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether subcutaneous dissection area has influence on clinical outcome of endoscopic thyroidectomy, such as post-operative pain, complication rate and post-operative discomfort.

Conditions

• Thyroid Tumor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	endoscopic thyroidectomy	endoscopic thyroidectomy via the breast approach. the difference between two arms is in the subcutaneous dissection area.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2011-04-19
• Last updated: 2011-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China