Anaesthesia for retrosternal thyroidectomy
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Thyroidectomy under local anaesthesia: how safe?
BACKGROUND In order to compliment the inadequate health facilities in the rural areas in Nigeria, nongovernmental organisations provide adhoc outreach health camps that offer treatment in various medical specialties including surgery. SETTING Rural outreach health camps. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety of thyroidectomy under local anaesthesia at rural outreach setting with inadequate facil...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeu063