Comparison of three common tonsil surgery techniques: cold steel with hot hemostasis, monopolar and bipolar diathermy.

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol · 2023 · PMC10175435 · PMID 36813861

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However, according to our study, increasing age does not directly translate to an increased bleeding risk, since in patients over 15 years, there was a significant trend for decreasing risk of postoperative hemorrhage.

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In a randomized controlled trial of 245 patients, the overall hemorrhage rate was higher with bipolar diathermy than with cold dissection (12.1% versus 7.7%), but the difference did not reach statistical significance [ 29 ].

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