Effect of training on the incidence of nerve damage in thyroid surgery

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 388-391

  Lamade W ^a,b   Renz, K ^a   Willeke, F ^a   Klar, E ^a   Herfarth, Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SEX RATIO; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TRAINING; THYROID SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 0032970371     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01017.x     Document Type: Article

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