Completion Thyroidectomy Versus Total Thyroidectomy: Is There a Difference in Complication Rates? An Analysis of 350 Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 602-607

  Rafferty, Mark A ^a   Goldstein, David P ^a   Rotstein, Lorne ^b   Asa, Sylvia L ^c   Panzarella, Tony ^a   Gullane, Patrick ^a   Gilbert, Ralph W ^a   Brown, Dale H ^a   Irish, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID GLAND; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648843890     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.05.030     Document Type: Article

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