Cost analysis of intraoperative frozen section examinations in thyroid surgery in a Canadian tertiary center

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 559-563

  Lai, Philip ^a   Segall, Lorne ^a   De Korompay, Nevin ^a   Witterick, Ian ^a   Freeman, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Frozen section; Papillary thyroid cancer; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; CYTOLOGY; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CANADA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349480781     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2009.080299     Document Type: Article

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