Thyroidectomy is optimal treatment for Graves' disease

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 714-720

  Feliciano, David V ^a   Lyons, John D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBIMAZOLE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; HYDROCODONE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; PROPRANOLOL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVES DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARATHYROID DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STRIDOR; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROIDECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953797291     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.12.036     Document Type: Article

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