Parathyroidectomy in the elderly population: Does age really matter?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-252

  Young, VyVy N ^a   Osborne, Kyra M ^a   Fleming, Muffin M ^a   Flynn, Michael B ^a   Goldstein, Richard E ^a   Bumpous, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Parathyroid

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PARALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 76249119775     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20706     Document Type: Article

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