Indeterminate thyroid nodules: A challenge for the surgical strategy

Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 516-525

  Asari, Reza ^a   Niederle, Barbara E ^a   Scheuba, Christian ^a   Riss, Philipp ^a   Koperek, Oskar ^a   Kaserer, Klaus ^a   Niederle, Bruno ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 77955927699     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.01.020     Document Type: Article

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