A critical analysis of 33 patients with substernal goiter surgically treated by neck incision
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A critical analysis of 33 patients with substernal goiter surgically treated by neck incision.
UNLABELLED The possibility of needing a combined access, with neck and chest incisions makes the treatment of substernal goiter a challenge both in the pre-op and the intraoperative. We hereby, discuss a standardization of the surgical technique to minimize the need for a chest approach, making the substernal goiter a surgically treatable disease, through a single neck incision, and with low in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1808-8694
DOI: 10.1016/s1808-8694(15)30774-6