Fate of human thyroid tissue autotransplants

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 571-576

  Roy, Pankaj Gupta ^a,c   Saund, Mandeep S ^a   Thusoo, Tej K ^a   Roy, Debabrata ^a   Sankar, Rajan ^b  

^a LOK NAYAK HOSPITAL   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^c 5 Fell House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autotransplantation; Graves' disease; Multinodular goiter; Subtotal thyroidectomy; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAVES DISEASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER, NODULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; NECK MUSCLES; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0042703585     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2557-8     Document Type: Article

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