HYPOTHESIS Robotic-assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) for the removal of thyroid glands is feasible by surgeons in the United States. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Academic research. Patient A 53-year-old woman. INTERVENTION Total thyroidectomy via the transaxillary approach. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Successful completion thyroidectomy using bilateral RATS. RESULTS Right thyroid lobectom...

OBJECTIVE To study the outcome and complications of thyroid surgery. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Three hundred and twelve patients (266 women and 46 men) underwent thyroid surgery between January 1994 and December 1999. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Complications of thyroidectomy for various thyroid diseases according to surgical technique used. ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of submitting children with thyroid cancer secondary to nuclear accidents to a completion total thyroidectomy. DESIGN A case series consisting of patients living and operated on in Belarus whose parents had asked for a clinical evaluation in a western European center. SETTING A tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS The conditions of 47 children from ...

BACKGROUND Total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy and gastric transposition (TPLEGT) for pharyngoesophageal (PE) tumors may require thyroidectomy (with or without removal of the parathyroid glands) to obtain adequate margins around the tumor. As a result, a considerable number of patients may have hypoparathyroidism (HP) develop. The objective of this article is to report our experience with differ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to investigate the surgical completeness of robotic total thyroidectomy compared with conventional open thyroidectomy. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, case-control study. METHODS We studied 245 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma who underwent total thyroidectomy and postoperative radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation. Of these, 62 patients unde...

BACKGROUND Total thyroidectomy is increasingly being adopted for patients requiring surgical treatment for Graves' disease based on a comparable surgical risk and the lack of recurrence, as well as the questionable ability of subtotal thyroidectomy to maintain euthyroidism. The purpose of the present paper was to evaluate its safety and efficiency. METHODS Total thyroidectomy was adopted as p...

INTRODUCTION Total thyroidectomy as a treatment for simple multinodular goitre is not well recognised in most centres in low middle income countries. METHOD This paper is a retrospective review of outcomes of total thyroidectomy for simple multinodular goitres in the last fifteen years in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. RESULTS A total of 652 thyroidectomies were done from January 2001 to D...

This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of minimal endoscope-assisted thyroidectomy (MEAT) through a retroauricular (RA) approach. Most of the thyroidectomy operative time was accounted for by direct visualization through the RA window, minimizing interference between surgical instruments. Endoscope use was minimized and limited to critical surgical aspects, including preserva...

Robotic thyroidectomy has been a good option in the treatment of benign and early stage differentiated thyroid cancers, with several functional benefits. In the last few years, many surgeons have established their own robotic thyroidectomy techniques, and published many reports on the feasibility, safety and benefits of their robotic procedures. Although there are many different surgical techni...

Horner syndrome (HS), caused by an interruption in the oculosympathetic pathway, is characterised by myosis, ipsilateral blepharoptosis, enophthalmos, facial anhydrosis, and vascular dilation of the lateral part of the face. HS is a rare complication of thyroidectomy. A 15-year-old female patient presented with solitary solid and large nodule in the right thyroid lobe. Ultrasound-guided fine-ne...