Extent of thyroidectomy in nodular thyroid disease

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 165, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 839-842

  Songun, Ilfet ^b   Kievit, Job ^b   Wobbes, Theo ^b   Peerdeman, Anne ^b   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complications; Surgery; Thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE INJURY; NETHERLANDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0032887397     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11024159950189311     Document Type: Article

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