Cost analysis of thyroid lobectomy and intraoperative frozen section versus total thyroidectomy in patients with a cytologic diagnosis of "suspicious for papillary thyroid cancer"

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1307-1314

  Leiker, Andrew J ^a   Yen, Tina W ^a   Cheung, Kevin ^b   Evans, Douglas B ^a   Wang, Tracy S ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DECISION TREES; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84887986047     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.06.031     Document Type: Article

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