Video-assisted central compartment lymphadenectomy in a patient with a positive RET oncogene: Initial experience

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-123

  Miccoli, P ^a   Elisei, R ^a   Donatini, G ^a   Materazzi, G ^a   Berti, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central neck lymphadenectomy; Medullary carcinoma; Positive RET proto oncogene; Video assisted central compartment lymphadenectomy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; NERVE PARALYSIS; ONCOGENE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CHILD; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; ONCOGENES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 33845644955     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0642-3     Document Type: Article

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