Nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery: Is it worthwhile?

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 487-490

  Timon, Conrad I ^a   Rafferty, M ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Nerve monitoring; Prognosis; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0033404960     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.1999.00292.x     Document Type: Article

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