Should an involved but functioning recurrent laryngeal nerve be shaved or resected in a locally advanced papillary thyroid carcinoma?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2951-2957

  Lang, Brian Hung Hin ^a   Lo, Chung Yau ^a   Wong, Kai Pun ^a   Wan, Koon Yat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESERVATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CARCINOMA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881474078     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-2984-8     Document Type: Article

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