Postoperative laryngoscopy in thyroid surgery: Proper timing to detect recurrent laryngeal nerve injury

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 395, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-331

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a   Rovera, Francesca ^a   Rausei, Stefano ^a   Castelnuovo, Paolo ^a   Dionigi, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laryngoscopy; Morbidity; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NODULAR GOITER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGERY; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954663954     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-009-0581-x     Document Type: Article

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