Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 514-518 , May 2009

Central lymph node dissection as a secondary procedure for papillary thyroid cancer: Is there added morbidity?

  • Raul Alvarado, MD
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  • Mark S. Sywak, MBBS, FRACS
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  • Leigh Delbridge, MD, FACS
    • ,
  • Stan B. Sidhu, PhD, FRACS

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Stan Sidhu, PhD, FRACS, University of Sydney Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Endocrine and Oncology Surgery, Level 2 Wallace Freeborn Building, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia 2065.

,Accepted 15 January 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00077-4

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.01.013

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 514-518 , May 2009

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