Assessment of the morbidity and complications of total thyroidectomy

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 389-392

  Bhattacharyya, Neil ^a,b   Fried, Marvin P ^c  

^a Division of Otolaryngology   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECK DISSECTION; PARATHYROID GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REIMPLANTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0036220750     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.128.4.389     Document Type: Article

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