Incidence of Morbidity Following Thyroid Surgery: Acceptable Morbidity Rates

Thyroid Surgery: Preventing and Managing Complications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-12

  Miccoli, Paolo ^a   Minuto, Michele N ^b   Miccoli, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; General surgeon; Hypoparathyroidism; Incidence rate; Recurrent nerve lesion; Statistics; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886459907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118444832.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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