Late bleeding after total thyroidectomy: Report of two cases occurring 13 days after operation

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-170

  Calò, Pietro Giorgio ^a   Erdas, Enrico ^a   Medas, Fabio ^a   Pisano, Giuseppe ^a   Barbarossa, Michela ^a   Pomata, Mariano ^a   Nicolosi, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant therapy; Complications; Hematoma; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; ENOXAPARIN; NADROPARIN; PROPAFENONE; SELEPARINA; TECHNETIUM 99M; THIAMAZOLE; THROMBOPLASTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SWELLING; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARATHYROID GLAND; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SWELLING; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84886446628     PISSN: 11795476     EISSN: 11795476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CCRep.S13024     Document Type: Article

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