Changes of serum calcium level following thyroid surgery - Reasons and clinical implications

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 364-368

  Kovacs L ^a   Goth M I ^a   Voros A ^a   Hubina, E ^a   Szilagyi G ^a   Szabolcs, I ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hypoalbuminemia; Thyroid surgery; Transient hypocalcemia

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCITONIN; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHORUS; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GOITER; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID SURGERY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CALCIUM; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0033857295     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-8130     Document Type: Article

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