Thyroid surgery and anaesthesia following head and neck irradiation for childhood malignancy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 490-492

  Delbridge, Leigh ^a,e   Sutherland, Joanna ^b   Somerville, Helen ^c   Steinbeck, Kate ^d   Stevens, Graham ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Childhood malignancy; Irradiation; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SKULL IRRADIATION; SOLID TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNX; MALE; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 0033915265     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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