Endoscopic subtotal thyroidectomy: The procedure of choice for graves' disease?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-71

  Sasaki, Akira ^a   Nitta, Hiroyuki ^a   Otsuka, Koki ^a   Obuchi, Toru ^a   Kurihara, Hideo ^b   Wakabayashi, Go ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kurihara Thyroid Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID WEIGHT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHILD; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149280382     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9783-6     Document Type: Article

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