Robot-assisted transaxillary thyroid surgery in the United States: Is it comparable to open thyroid lobectomy?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1269-1274

  Landry, Christine S ^a   Grubbs, Elizabeth G ^a   Warneke, Carla L ^a   Ormond, Mandy ^a   Chua, Cindy ^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; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOT ASSISTED TRANSAXILLARY THYROID SURGERY; SEROMA; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862503697     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-2075-7     Document Type: Article

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