Video-assisted thyroidectomy: Report of a 7-year experience in Rome

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 391, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 174-177

  Lombardi, Celestino Pio ^a   Raffaelli, Marco ^a   Princi, Pietro ^a   De Crea, Carmela ^a   Bellantone, Rocco ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive thyroidectomy; Thyroid surgery; Video assisted thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 33744810890     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0023-y     Document Type: Article

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