Evaluation of recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 474-478

  Sari, Serkan ^a   Erbil, Yeşim ^a   Sümer, Aziz ^a   Agcaoglu, Orhan ^a   Bayraktar, Adem ^a   Issever, Halim ^a   Ozarmagan, Selcuk ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Nerve injury; Nerve monitoring; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE NERVE MONITORING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROANATOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL STRESS; THYROIDECTOMY;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RISK FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 84755161266     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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