Three-dimensional virtual neck exploration before parathyroidectomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1072-1073

  D'Agostino, Jacopo ^a   Diana, Michele ^a   Vix, Michel ^a   Soler, Luc ^a   Marescaux, Jacques ^a  

^a Dept Virtual Reality Tum ALS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LETTER; NERVE INJURY; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYROID CRISIS; THYROID SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84866081963     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1201488     Document Type: Letter

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