Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 4 , Pages 569-577 , October 2009

Surgeon-performed ultrasound: A single institution experience in parathyroid localization

  • Azad A. Jabiev, MD
    • ,
  • John I. Lew, MD
    • ,
  • Carmen C. Solorzano, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Carmen C. Solorzano, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Division of Endocrine Surgery, 1475 NW 12th Avenue, Room 3550, Miami, FL 33136.

,Accepted 6 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.043

Surgery
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