Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 241-245 , February 2010

Occult lymph node metastases in neck level V in papillary thyroid carcinoma

  • Young Chang Lim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Research Institute of Medical Science, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Eun Chang Choi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Yeo-Hoon Yoon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cancer Research Institute, Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
    • ,
  • Bon Seok Koo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cancer Research Institute, Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Bon Seok Koo, MD, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Chungnam National University Hospital, 640 Daesa-Dong, Chung-Gu, Daejeon 301-040, Republic of Korea.

,Accepted 4 September 2009.

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 Supported by Konkuk University in 2009.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00526-1

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.002

Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 241-245 , February 2010

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