A Comparison of surgical morbidity and scar appearance between gasless, transaxillary endoscopic thyroidectomy (GTET) and minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (VAT)

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 646-652

  Lang, Brian Hung Hin ^a,b   Wong, Kai Pun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GASLESS TRANSAXILLARY ENDOSCOPIC THYROIDECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NECK DISSECTION; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PATIENT AND OBSERVER SCAR ASSESSMENT SCALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; SCAR; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CICATRIX; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURIES; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878836629     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2613-y     Document Type: Article

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