Safety of total thyroidectomy

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 15-19

  Serpell, Jonathan W ^a,b,c   Phan, Diana ^b  

^a FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Goitre; Graves' disease; Hypocalcaemia; Hypoparathyroidism; Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy; Thyroid cancer; Total thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CANCER SURGERY; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVES DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PARATHYROID TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; SAFETY; SEROMA; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOMALACIA; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SAFETY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 33846428109     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03897.x     Document Type: Article

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