Initial experience with a gasless unilateral axillo-breast or axillary approach endoscopic thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: Comparison with conventional open thyroidectomy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 162-169

  Tae, Kyung ^a   Bae, Yong ^a   Cho, Seok Hyun ^a   Kim, Kyung Rae ^a   Kim, Dong Won ^b   Kim, Dong Sun ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

Axillary approach; Axillo breast approach; Endoscopic thyroidectomy; Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY APPROACH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GASLESS UNILATERAL AXILLO BREAST APPROACH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAPILLARY THYROID MICROCARCINOMA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AXILLA; BREAST; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051910061     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318218d1a4     Document Type: Article

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