Routine prophylactic central neck dissection for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer: A cost-effectiveness analysis

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1148-1155

  Zanocco, Kyle ^a   Elaraj, Dina ^a   Sturgeon, Cord ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NECK DISSECTION; PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPHYLACTIC CENTRAL NECK DISSECTION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; REOPERATION; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84887865328     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.06.016     Document Type: Article

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