Excellence in robotic thyroid surgery: A comparative study of robot-assisted versus conventional endoscopic thyroidectomy in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1060-1066

  Lee, Sohee ^a   Ryu, Haeng Rang ^a   Park, Jae Hyun ^a   Kim, Kyu Hyung ^a   Kang, Sang Wook ^a   Jeong, Jong Ju ^a   Nam, Kee Hyun ^a   Chung, Woong Youn ^a   Park, Cheong Soo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; THYROGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SEROMA; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA INJURY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADULT; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 79957503860     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182138b54     Document Type: Article

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