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. 2011:4:441-9.
doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S26349. Epub 2011 Dec 14.

Current surgical status of thyroid diseases

Panagiotis Touzopoulos  1 , Michael Karanikas, Paul Zarogoulidis, Alexandros Mitrakas, Konstantinos Porpodis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Vasilis Zervas, Ioannis Kouroumichakis, Theodoros C Constantinidis, Dimitrios Mikroulis, Konstantinos E Tsimogiannis
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Current surgical status of thyroid diseases

Panagiotis Touzopoulos et al. J Multidiscip Healthc. 2011.

Abstract

Thyroid nodules are a common clinical problem for surgeons. The clinical importance of nodules is the need to exclude thyroid cancer, which occurs in 5%-15% of patients. If fine needle aspiration cytology is positive, or suspicious for malignancy, surgery is recommended. During the past decade, with the tendency to develop smaller incisions, an endoscopic approach has been applied to thyroid surgery, called minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy. This approach was immediately followed by other minimally invasive or scarless neck techniques, such as the breast approach, axillary-breast approach, and robot-assisted method. All these techniques follow the same principles of surgery and oncology. This review presents the current surgical management of the thyroid gland, including the surgical techniques and compares them by describing benefits and drawbacks of each one.

Keywords: surgical techniques; thyroid cancer; thyroidectomy.

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Different incision margins based on the technique used. Abbreviation: MIVAT, minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy.
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