Surgical treatment of thyroid diseases in elderly patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 467-472

  Raffaelli, Marco ^a   Bellantone, Rocco ^a   Princi, Pietro ^b   De Crea, Carmela ^a   Rossi, Esther D ^a   Fadda, Guido ^a   Lombardi, Celestino P ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Geriatric surgery; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid surgery; Thyroidectomy; Toxic goiter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; ITALY; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957375425     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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