Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 239-240 , February 2010

Substernal goiter: What is in a definition?

  • Ashok R. Shaha, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ashok R. Shaha, MD, FACS, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021.

,Accepted 26 October 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00701-6

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.066

Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 239-240 , February 2010

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