Figure 3From: Clinical experience with modified Miccoli’s endoscopic thyroidectomy for treatment of thyroid carcinoma in 86 casesThe key operative procedure of clearance of the level VI lymph nodes. (A) The clearance of lymph nodes in the central area before the trachea was isolated; (B) the recurrent laryngeal nerve and superior parathyroid gland after the clearance of lymph nodes in the central area.Back to article page