title: Natural orifice surgery on the thyroid gland using totally transoral video-assisted thyroidectomy: report of the first experimental results for a new surgical method: are we going in the right direction?
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miccoli
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Materazzi
authors.forename: Piero
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Berti
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D004210:Dissection; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D009055:Mouth; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000379:methods*; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery
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