Total Thyroidectomy is Associated with Increased Risk of Complications for Low- and High-Volume Surgeons

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3844-3852

  Hauch, Adam ^a   Al Qurayshi, Zaid ^a   Randolph, Gregory ^b   Kandil, Emad ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTITIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOMA; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SEROMA; SHOCK; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOMALACIA; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNILATERAL THYROIDECTOMY; VERY ELDERLY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND COMPLICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CANCER STAGING; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84918774385     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3846-8     Document Type: Article

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