Robot assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) for the removal of thyroid and parathyroid glands

Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 549-555

  Landry, Christine S ^a   Grubbs, Elizabeth G ^a   Stephen Morris, G ^a   Turner, Nadine S ^a   Christopher Holsinger, F ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Perrier, Nancy D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOT ASSISTED TRANSAXILLARY SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AXILLA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID GLANDS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 79952701716     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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