Surgical considerations and controversies in thyroid and parathyroid surgery

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 159-187

  Affleck, Brian D ^a   Swartz, Keith ^b   Brennan, Joseph ^b  

^a RAF Lakenheath Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; NECK DISSECTION; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0037302807     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-6665(02)00135-4     Document Type: Review

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