The recurrent laryngeal nerve and the inferior thyroid artery - Anatomical variations during surgery

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 681-685

  Makay, Ozer ^a   Icoz, Gokhan ^a   Yilmaz, Mustafa ^a   Akyildiz, Mahir ^a   Yetkin, Enis ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inferior laryngeal nerve; Inferior thyroid artery; Thyroid surgery; Variations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RISK FACTOR; THYROID GLAND; THYROID SURGERY;

ADULT; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 51449085372     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0320-8     Document Type: Article

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