Outpatient Thyroidectomy Is Safe and Reasonable: Experience with More than 1,000 Planned Outpatient Procedures

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 210, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 575-582

  Snyder, Samuel K ^a   Hamid, Kamran S ^a   Roberson, Charles R ^a   Rai, Surjit S ^a   Bossen, Adam C ^a   Luh, Jeffery H ^a   Scherer, Elizabeth P ^a   Song, Juhee ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952308096     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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