Surgical complications after robotic thyroidectomy for thyroid carcinoma: A single center experience with 3,000 patients

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2555-2563

  Ban, Eun Jeong ^a   Yoo, Ji Young ^a   Kim, Won Woong ^a   Son, Hae Young ^a   Park, Seulkee ^b   Lee, So Hee ^c   Lee, Cho Rok ^a   Kang, Sang Wook ^a   Jeong, Jong Ju ^a   Nam, Kee Hyun ^a   Chung, Woong Youn ^a   Park, Cheong Soo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Dong A University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Surgical complications; Thyroid carcinoma; Transaxillary robotic thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; ROBOTIC THYROIDECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SEROMA; SKIN FLAP PERFORATION; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA INJURY; VEIN INJURY; AXILLA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; SOUTH KOREA; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906939748     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3502-1     Document Type: Article

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