Yonsei Experience of 5000 Gasless Transaxillary Robotic Thyroidectomies
June 25, 2018
Over the last 10 years, the thyroid cancer incidence has had a worldwide increasing trend. Thyroid surgery is one of the most commonly performed operations. Traditional open surgery may have poor cosmetic outcomes. Endoscopic cervical approaches have been introduced by Gagner1 and Huscher et al.2. Later on, multiple techniques have been described: anterior chest, axillary, breast, and cervical approaches3-5, transoral6 and retroauticolar7. In 2001 Chung et al. [6], from Yonsei University Health System, introduced the new endoscopic thyroidectomy (ET) technique using a gasless transaxillary approach….
Written By: Alberto Mangano, M.D.
Research Fellow, Division of General, Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
