Clinical Robotic Surgery Association

Chicago 2010 – Robotic Thyroidectomy: First Year Experience with a Gasless Transaxillary Approach at University of Illinois at Chicago

P. Addeo

Chicago 2010 – Robot-Assisted Transaxillary Hemi-Thyroidectomy for Large Right Side Goiter

P.C. Giulianotti

Chicago 2009 Video – Robotic Transaxillary Completition thyroidectomy for sospicius thyroid cancer with parathyroid reimplantation

G. Caravaglios Robot assisted thyroidectomy has been recently becoming more popular and successfully used in United States and Korea. Technical limitations and precise indications still have to be defined. The presence of scar and adhesions due to previous lobectomy could increase the difficulty of the procedure.

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Chicago 2009 Video – Single Incision Robotic-Assisted Thyroidectomy Gasless, Trans-Axillary Approach

H.R. Ryu Background/Hypothesis Until recently the robot-assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy had been performed with the two-incision system (axilla and Ant. chest wall) in our institutes. But in this paper we introduce the procedure of single-incision robot-assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy for thyroid surgery using a gasless transaxillary approach only