Lateral mobilization of the recurrent laryngeal nerve to facilitate tracheal surgery in patients with thyroid cancer invading the trachea near Berry's ligament

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2081-2084

  Miyauchi, Akira ^a   Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a   Higashiyama, Takuya ^a   Tomoda, Chisato ^a   Takamura, Yuuki ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Matsuzuka, Fumio ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MALE; PHONATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SKIN FLAP; STOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; TRACHEA SURGERY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID CARTILAGE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 35448972541     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9180-6     Document Type: Article

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