Does extralaryngeal branching have an impact on the rate of postoperative transient or permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-265

  Casella, Claudio ^a   Pata, Giacomo ^a   Nascimbeni, Riccardo ^a   Mittempergher, Francesco ^a   Salerni, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SURGICAL RISK; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 58149477698     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9832-1     Document Type: Article

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