Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 1048-1055 , December 2009

Robotic thyroid surgery using a gasless, transaxillary approach and the da Vinci S system: The operative outcomes of 338 consecutive patients

,Accepted 17 September 2009.

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