Transoral approach to removal of the retropharyngeal lymph nodes in well-differentiated thyroid cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1155-1158

  Le, T Domi ^a   Cohen, James I ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; DISSECTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INCISION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; ORAL SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID DISEASE;

ELECTROCOAGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MOUTH; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHARYNX; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347350327     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31805819ba     Document Type: Article

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