Surgery
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Improvement in phonation after reconstruction of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in patients with thyroid cancer invading the nerve

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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)00547-9

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.018

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