Central compartment neck dissection for thyroid cancer: Technical considerations

ORL

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 292-297

  Pai, Sara I ^a   Tufano, Ralph P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central compartment; Neck dissection; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; NECK DISSECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER;

HUMANS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 55249123182     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000149831     Document Type: Article

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