Urgent thyroidectomy for acute airway obstruction caused by a goiter in a euthyroid pregnant woman

Thyroid

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-88

  Aloumanis, Kyriakos ^a   Mavroudis, K ^a   Vassiliou, I ^b   Arkadopoulos, N ^b   Smyrniotis, V ^b   Kontoyannis, S ^c   Papapetrou, P D ^a   Kostopoulos, C H ^c  

^a ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; LUNG FLOW VOLUME CURVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPIROMETRY; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA STENOSIS;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPIROMETRY; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33644757718     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.16.85     Document Type: Article

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