Robotic thyroid surgery: An initial experience with North American patients

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 521-526

  Kuppersmith, Ronald B ^a   Holsinger, F Christopher ^b  

^a Texas Institute for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

endoscopic; robot; robotic; thyroid; Thyroidectomy; transaxillary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADULT; AXILLA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951917712     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21347     Document Type: Article

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