Surgical management of the substernal thyroid gland

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 358-361

  Pulli, Ronald S ^a   Coniglio, John U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031905464     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199803000-00009     Document Type: Article

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