Laryngeal complications after thyroidectomy is it always the surgeon?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-153

  Echternach, Matthias ^a   Maurer, Christoph ^e   Mencke, Thomas ^b   Schilling, Martin ^c   Verse, Thomas ^d   Richter, Bernhard ^a  

^a University of Music Freiburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Asklepios Klinik Harburg   (Germany)

^e Liestal Hospitl ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX DISORDER; LARYNX INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VOCAL CORD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; REOPERATION; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOCAL CORDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449094773     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2008.530     Document Type: Article

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