Ectopic thyroid

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1952-1953

  Gamblin, T Clark ^a,b   Jennings, G Russell ^a   Christie III, Dudley B ^a   Thompson Jr , William M ^a   Dalton, Martin L ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Hospital Box 140 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; STERNOTOMY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; GOITER, NODULAR; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STERNUM; THORACOTOMY; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0038650975     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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