Surgical treatment of the substernal goitre

International Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 190-192

  Dedivitis, Rogério A ^a,c   Guimarães, André V ^a   Machado, Paulo C ^b   Suehara, Alexandre N ^b   Noda, Evelin ^b  

^a HOSPITAL ANA COSTA   (Brazil)

^b Medical Sciences School of Santos   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Median sternotomy; Mediastinal tumors; Substernal goitre; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0033155368     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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