Huge intrathyroidal hematoma causing airway obstruction: A multidisciplinary challenge

Thyroid

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 795-799

  Tsilchorozidou, Tasoula ^a   Vagropoulos, Ioannis ^b   Karagianidou, Chrysa ^b   Grigoriadis, Nicolaos ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b General District Hospital of Serres   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; COUMARIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; PREDNISOLONE; VITAMIN K GROUP;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRATHYROID HEMATOMA; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NECK PAIN; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SYMPTOM; THYROID DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANTICOAGULANTS; COUMARINS; FEMALE; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; THYROID GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN K;

EID: 33751059503     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.16.795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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