Are there significant benefits of minimally invasive endoscopic thyroidectomy?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1075-1078

  Ikeda, Yoshifumi ^a   Takami, Hiroshi ^a   Sasaki, Yuzo ^a   Takayama, Jun Ichi ^a   Kurihara, Hideko ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THYROIDECTOMY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AXILLA; COSMETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 12144267458     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7655-2     Document Type: Article

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