Minimal access thyroid surgery: Technique and report of the first 25 cases

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 330-334

  Gosnell, Jessica E ^a   Sackett, Wendy R ^a   Sidhu, Stan ^a   Sywak, Mark ^a   Reeve, Tom S ^a   Delbridge, Leigh W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Follicular thyroid neoplasm; Minimal access surgery; Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy; Thyroid; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SAFETY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542638565     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-1433.2004.02982.x     Document Type: Article

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