Evolution in the surgical management of well-differentiated thyroid cancer or not: To dissect or not dissect the central lymph node compartment

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-102

  Zeiger, Martha A ^a,b  

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

^b Endocrine Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM STAGING; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 76549085954     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21385     Document Type: Editorial

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