RT Journal
A1 Machens A, Dralle H
T1 FAilure to consider the number of dissected sides can bias complication rate calculations of central lymph node dissection for thyroid cancer
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2010
FD October 1
VO 145
IS 10
SP 1026
OP 1027
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2010.202
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2010.202
AB 
In this series, the risk of neck injury was stacked against initial CLND: 307 (71 unilateral and 118 bilateral initial CLND) vs 136 (76 unilateral and 30 bilateral reoperative CLND) dissected neck sides.1