Advantages of recurrent laryngeal nerve identification in thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy and the importance of preoperative and postoperative laryngoscopic examination in more than 1000 nerves at risk

Laryngoscope

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 124-133

  Steurer, Martin ^a   Passler, Christian ^a   Denk, Doris M ^a   Schneider, Berit ^a   Niederle, Bruno ^a   Bigenzahn, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complications; Laryngeal nerves; Laryngoscopy; Parathyroid gland; Parathyroidectomy; Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy; Surgery; Thyroid gland; Thyroidectomy; Videostroboscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL RISK; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEOSTROBOSCOPY;

EID: 0036140395     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200201000-00022     Document Type: Article

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