Vocal cord paralysis after subtotal oesophagectomy

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1583-1587

  Hulscher, J B F ^a   Van Sandick, J W ^a   Devriese, P P ^b   Van Lanschot, J J B ^a   Obertop, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG VENTILATION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 0032786402     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01333.x     Document Type: Article

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