High incidence of tracheomalacia in longstanding goiters: Experience from an endemic goiter region

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 832-837

  Agarwal, Amit ^a   Mishra, Anand K ^a   Gupta, Sushil K ^a   Arshad, Farah ^a   Agarwal, Anil ^a   Tripathi, M ^a   Singh, P K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREATHING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EDEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOTTIS; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPATION; RECOVERY ROOM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOMALACIA; TRACHEOSTOMY; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 33947656341     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-006-0565-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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