Morbidity and mortality of thyroidectomy for substernal goiter

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 744-749

  Abboud, Bassam ^a   Sleilaty, Ghassan ^a   Mallak, Nadine ^a   Zeid, Hicham Abou ^a   Tabchy, Bassam ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Complications; Goiter; Sternotomy; Substernal; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRACHEA DISEASE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 77952786378     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21246     Document Type: Article

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