What is the appropriate extent of lateral neck dissection in the treatment of metastatic well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1716-1717

  Hasney, Christian P ^a   Amedee, Ronald G ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THYROID CARCINOMA;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956564711     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20994     Document Type: Short Survey

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