Experience counts

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-27

  Udelsman, Robert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 3042613793     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000130722.43832.f0     Document Type: Editorial

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