Does mediastinal extension of the goiter increase morbidity of total thyroidectomy? A multicenter study of 19,662 patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2251-2259

  Testini, Mario ^a   Gurrado, Angela ^a   Avenia, Nicola ^b   Bellantone, Rocco ^c   Biondi, Antonio ^d   Brazzarola, Paolo ^e   Calzolari, Filippo ^b   Cavallaro, Giuseppe ^f   De Toma, Giorgio ^f   Guida, Pietro ^a   Lissidini, Germana ^a   Loizzi, Michele ^a   Lombardi, Celestino Pio ^c   Piccinni, Giuseppe ^a   Portincasa, Piero ^a   Rosato, Lodovico ^g   Sartori, Nora ^e   Zugni, Chiara ^e   Basile, Francesco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e Department of Surgery   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g Ospedale di Ivrea   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICOMEDIASTINAL GOITER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENDER; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE PARALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051544103     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-1596-4     Document Type: Article

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