Use of ultrasound to assess superior and recurrent laryngeal nerve function immediately after thyroid surgery

Anaesthesia

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-302

  Kundra, P ^a   Kumar, K ^a   Allampalli, V ^a   Anathkrishnan, R ^a   Gopalakrishnan, S ^a   Elangovan, S ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ASEPSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL PLEXUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EUTHYROIDISM; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; IRRITATIVE COUGHING; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LETTER; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; ULTRASOUND; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 84856902764     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2012.07064.x     Document Type: Letter

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