Intraoperative monitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1358-1366

  Dralle, H ^a   Sekulla, C ^a   Lorenz, K ^a   Brauckhoff, M ^a   Machens, A ^a   Blankenburg, Ch ^b   Grond, St ^b   Hamelmann, W ^b   Heidemann, H ^b   Koch, B ^b   Kruse, E ^b   Lehmann, D ^b   Muller N ^b   Szelenyi, A ^b   Timmermann, W ^b   Wenner, F ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 45849145724     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9483-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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