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Outcomes Analysis in Thyroid Surgery: A Review of Patient and Provider Predictors

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Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

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  1. Sections of Oncologic, Endocrine, and General Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520-8062, USA

    Kate V. Viola & Julie Ann Sosa

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  1. Division of General Surgery, University Hospital Basel, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

    Daniel Oertli (Vice-Dean of the Medical Faculty) (Vice-Dean of the Medical Faculty)

  2. University of Basel, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

    Daniel Oertli (Vice-Dean of the Medical Faculty) (Vice-Dean of the Medical Faculty)

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208062, New Haven, CT, 06520-8062, USA

    Robert Udelsman (Lampman Professor of Surgery and Oncology, Chairman, Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief-Yale-New Haven Hospital) (Lampman Professor of Surgery and Oncology, Chairman, Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief-Yale-New Haven Hospital)

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Viola, K.V., Sosa, J.A. (2007). Outcomes Analysis in Thyroid Surgery: A Review of Patient and Provider Predictors. In: Oertli, D., Udelsman, R. (eds) Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68043-7_18

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