Postoperative tetany in patients with Graves' disease: A risk factor analysis

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-77

  Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Noguchi, Shiro ^a   Tahara, Kazuki ^a   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Uchino, Shinya ^a   Kawamoto, Hitoshi ^a   Toda, Masakatsu ^a   Murakami, Nobuo ^a  

^a Noguchi Thyroid Clin Hosp Found   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TETANY; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0030873280     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.2201033.x     Document Type: Article

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