Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 65-71 , January 2010

Outcome after thyroid surgery for metastasis from renal cell cancer

  • Andreas Machens, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Andreas Machens, MD, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst-Grube-Strasse 40, D-06097 Halle/Saale, Germany.
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  • Henning Dralle, MD

,Accepted 28 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.08.015

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