Surgical treatment of substernal goiter: An analysis of 59 patients

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 505-511

  Agha, Ayman ^a   Glockzin, Gabriel ^a   Ghali, Nabil ^a   Iesalnieks, Igors ^a   Schlitt, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collar incision; Complication rate; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Substernal goiter; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 44449096158     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3659-5     Document Type: Article

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