Inadvertent parathyroidectomy during thyroid surgery: The incidence of a complication of thyroidectomy

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 391, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 557-560

  Gourgiotis, Stavros ^a,b,c   Moustafellos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Dimopoulos, Nikitas ^a,b   Papaxoinis, George ^a,b   Baratsis, Sotirios ^a,b   Hadjiyannakis, Evangelos ^a,b  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypocalcemia; Lobectomy; Parathyroidectomy; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCALCEMIA; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750430334     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0079-8     Document Type: Article

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