Robotic thyroid surgery: Need for initial stricter patient selection criteria

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 518-

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; NECK; PATIENT SELECTION; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74949104546     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e3181c4ea0e     Document Type: Letter

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