Natural orifice surgery on the thyroid gland using totally transoral video-assisted thyroidectomy: Report of the first experimental results for a new surgical method: Are we going in the right direction?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 957-958

  Miccoli, Paolo ^a   Materazzi, Gabriele ^a   Berti, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CADAVER; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LETTER; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 77952543210     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0677-y     Document Type: Letter

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