Substernal Thyroidectomy is Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality as Compared with Conventional Cervical Thyroidectomy

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Pieracci, Fredric M ^a   Fahey III, Thomas J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GOITER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347346115     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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