Partial median sternotomy: An attractive approach to mediastinal parathyroid disease

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1234-1239

  Gold, Jason S ^a   Donovan, Patricia I ^a   Udelsman, Robert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM; MORBIDITY; NECK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID DISEASE; PARATHYROID FUNCTION; PARATHYROID GLAND; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746088399     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7904-z     Document Type: Review

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