Predictable criteria for selective, rather than routine, calcium supplementation following thyroidectomy

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 338-344

  Landry, Christine S ^a   Grubbs, Elizabeth G ^a   Hernandez, Mike ^a   Hu, Mimi I ^a   Hansen, Mandy O ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Perrier, Nancy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK DISSECTION; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHLEBOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPPLEMENTATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THYROID HORMONES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84859941404     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.1406     Document Type: Article

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