Surgical management of substernal goitre: Local experience

Hong Kong Medical Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 360-365

  Chow, T L ^a   Chan, T T F ^a   Suen, D T K ^a   Chu, D W ^a   Lam, S H ^a  

^a UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Goiter, substernal; Hong Kong; Tomography, X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STERNOTOMY; SUBSTERNAL GOITER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27144550429     PISSN: 10242708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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