Increasing the size limit of benign thyroid lesions resectable by endoscopic thyroidectomy via a unilateral axillo-breast approach without gas insufflation

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2203-2211

  Kim, Won Shik ^a   Hong, Hyun Jun ^a   Shin, Yoo Seob ^a   Choi, Eun Chang ^a   Choi, Hong Shik ^a   Koh, Yoon Woo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AERATION; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AXILLA; BREAST; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80855123766     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1232-2     Document Type: Article

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