Total thyroidectomy for the treatment of thyroid diseases in an endemic area

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1224-1229

  Misiakos, Evangelos P ^a,b   Liakakos, Theodore ^a   Macheras, Anastasios ^a   Zachaki, Aglaia ^a   Kakaviatos, Nikolaos ^a   Karatzas, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Goiter; Surgery; Thyroid; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NODULAR GOITER; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 33845299132     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000232202.82002.c5     Document Type: Article

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