Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 4 , Pages 696-705 , October 2009

Routine bilateral central lymph node clearance for papillary thyroid cancer

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 Presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Society, Sarasota, Florida, March 5–7, 2009.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00463-2

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.046

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 4 , Pages 696-705 , October 2009

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