Risk factors of paralysis and functional outcome after recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery

Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1310-1322

  Dralle, Henning ^a,b   Sekulla, Carsten ^a   Haerting, Johannes ^a   Timmermann, Wolfgang ^a   Neumann, Hans Jürgen ^a   Kruse, Eberhard ^a   Grond, Stefan ^a   Mühlig, Hans Peter ^a   Richter, Christian ^a   Voß, Johannes ^a   Thomusch, Oliver ^a   Lippert, Hans ^a   Gastinger, Ingo ^a   Brauckhoff, Michael ^a   Gimm, Oliver ^a  

^a Inst Med Epidemiol Depts S   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GOITER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THYROID SURGERY; THYROID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 10644256728     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2004.07.018     Document Type: Article

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