Modified radical neck dissection for differentiated thyroid cancer: Operative technique

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1199-1203

  Uchino, Shinya ^a   Noguchi, Shiro ^a   Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Watanabe, Shin ^a  

^a Hospital Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CAROTID ARTERY; JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; SKIN FLAP; SKIN INCISION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NECK; NECK MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; VASCULARIZATION;

HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NECK MUSCLES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 16644394218     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7604-0     Document Type: Article

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