HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Elias Karakas from the Department of General‑, Abdominal‑ and Endocrine Surgery, Hospital Maria Hilf, Alexianer GmbH, Krefeld, Germany have published the article: Transoral thyroid surgery vestibular approach: is there an increased risk of surgical site infections?, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: Most patients in this study had benign lesions.
- future: Investigations are required to finally estimate the need of antibiotics in transoral surgery.
SUMMARY
Conventional thyroid and parathyroid surgery are clean with rates of surgical site infections (SSI) reported to be between 0.5 and 3% at most . . .
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