Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 1123-1129 , December 2009

World wide what? The quality of information on parathyroid disease available on the Internet

  • Julie F. McGill, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Tracy-Ann Moo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Meredith Kato, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Raza Hoda, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • John D. Allendorf, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • William B. Inabnet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Thomas J. Fahey III, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Laurent Brunaud, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, University of Nancy, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
    • ,
  • Rasa Zarnegar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • James A. Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: James A. Lee, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10032.

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 Presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2–5, 2009.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00545-5

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.016

Surgery
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