Surgical treatment for multinodular goitres in geriatric patients

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 390, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 236-242

  Ríos, Antonio ^a,b   Rodríguez, José Manuel ^a   Galindo, Pedro José ^a   Canteras, Manuel ^a   Parrilla, Pascual ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Morbidity and mortality; Multinodular goitre; Postsurgical; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GOITER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 21244480474     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-004-0521-8     Document Type: Article

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