Incision length for standard thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy: When is it minimally invasive?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1140-1143

  Brunaud, Laurent ^a,b,d   Zarnegar, Rasa ^a,b   Wada, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Ituarte, Philip ^a,b   Clark, Orlo H ^a,b   Duh, Quan Yang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NECK DISSECTION; ORGAN SIZE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0141958346     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.10.1140     Document Type: Article

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