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Alternative approaches to the thyroid gland

William S Duke1, David J Terris1

  • 1Department of Otolaryngology, GRU Thyroid Center, Georgia Regents University, 1120 Fifteenth Street, BP-4109, Augusta, GA 30912-4060, USA.

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
|June 4, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
EndoscopicMinimally invasiveRoboticThyroid surgery

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