Are frozen sections useful and cost-effective in the era of intraoperative qPTH assays?

Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1159-1165

  Iacobone, Maurizio ^a   Scarpa, Marco ^a   Lumachi, Franco ^a   Favia, Gennaro ^a   Grant, Clive ^b   Rosen, Irving B ^b   Heller, Keith S ^b   Udelsman, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROPARATHYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29144458142     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2005.05.026     Document Type: Article

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