Complications to thyroid surgery: Results as reported in a database from a multicenter audit comprising 3,660 patients

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 667-673

  Bergenfelz, A ^a,b   Jansson, S ^c   Kristoffersson, A ^d   Martensson H ^e   Reihner E ^f   Wallin, G ^f   Lausen, I ^g  

^a Lund University Hospital ^*

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e HELSINGBORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Audit; Complications; Database; Surgery; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM; VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; SCANDINAVIA; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; THYROID SURGERY; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 51449087796     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0366-7     Document Type: Article

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