Is it meaningful to preserve a palsied recurrent laryngeal nerve

Thyroid

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-366

  Chi, Shun Yu ^a   Lammers, Bernhard ^b   Boehner, Hinrich ^b   Pohl, Peter ^b   Goretzki, Peter E ^b,c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b Lukaskrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

^c Chefarzt der Chirurgischen Klinik I   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE; VOCAL CORD ATROPHY; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE CHANGE;

AGED; ATROPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 40949108430     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2007.0124     Document Type: Article

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