Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer: The Singapore General Hospital experience

Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 239-243

  Sim, R ^a,b   Soo, K C ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Laryngectomy; Pharyngectomy; Radical surgery; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LARYNGECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNOTOMY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CANCER; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SINGAPORE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031661943     PISSN: 00358835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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