Robotic-assisted parathyroidectomy: A feasibility study

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 859-866

  Tolley, Neil ^a   Arora, Asit ^a   Palazzo, Fausto ^a   Garas, George ^a   Dhawan, Ranju ^a   Cox, Jeremy ^a   Darzi, Ara ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Da vinci surgical system; Parathyroid adenoma; Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs); Quality of life (QoL); Robotic surgery; Scar cosmesis; Targeted parathyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; ROBOTIC ASSISTED PARATHYROIDECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID TUMOR; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

PARATHYROID HORMONE;

AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79961191179     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599811402152     Document Type: Article

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