Tracheostomy with thyroidectomy: Indications, management and outcome: A prospective study

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-150

  ElBashier, ElHadi Mohamed ^a   Hassan Widtalla, Abu Bakr ^a   ElMakki Ahmed, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a Khartoum Teaching Hospital   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Endotracheal tube; Goitre; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Thyroid; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; DEATH; ENDEMIC GOITER; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NODULAR GOITER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; STERNOTOMY; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRACHEOMALACIA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; COUGH; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEOSTOMY; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 42649097898     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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