Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 913-921 , November 2009

Thyroid surgery in octogenarians is associated with higher complication rates

  • Michal Mekel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Antonia E. Stephen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Randall D. Gaz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Zvi H. Perry, MD

      Affiliations

    • Surgical Research Lab, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Richard A. Hodin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Sareh Parangi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sareh Parangi, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, Wang ACC 460, Boston, MA 02114.

,Accepted 8 May 2009.

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 S.P. is partially supported by the ATA/ThyCa Grant Award for Thyroid Cancer Research. M.M. is a recipient of fellowship grant from the American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel and is also supported in part by Rambam-Health Care Campus, Israel, the American Friends of Rambam, Israel Medical Association, and The Israel Cancer Association.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00298-0

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.05.004

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 913-921 , November 2009

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