Recurrent laryngeal nerve diameter increases during thyroidectomy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1742-1747

  Serpell, Jonathan W ^a   Woodruff, Stacey ^a   Bailey, Michael ^a   Grodski, Simon ^a   Yeung, Meei ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EDEMA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DIAMETER; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; THYROIDECTOMY; VOICE CHANGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956198612     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1531-0     Document Type: Article

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