Meanings of cervical approach in English

Results: Gross total resection of a retropharyngeal chordoma was achieved using a posterior cervical approach.

Conclusion: Total thyroidectomy via cervical approach is the treatment of choice for MG in the elderly.

Conclusions: Most patients with substernal goiters underwent thyroid resection via a cervical approach with an improvement in symptoms.

These approaches have several limitations unique to these exposures, limitations not applicable to a posterior midline cervical approach.

Total thyroidectomy was performed in all cases and via a cervical approach in almost 99% of patients.

Surgery was performed by an experienced surgical team with standard technique via cervical approach or in selected cases via sternotomy or thoracotomy.

Methods: A case report is provided that illustrates the use of a posterior cervical approach used to resect a retropharyngeal craniovertebral junction chordoma.

Five hundred forty-four patients (group 1) had a cervical approach and 93 (group 2) had a lumbar approach.