from the classical 10 cm long Kocher incision to the shortest 15 mm access achieved with Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy. This rather large interval encompasses many different ...

If we consider a 3 cm. long incision as the upper threshold of video-assisted or endoscopic techniques and 8 cm. as the lower threshold of the conventional Kocher incision, a range of many ...

The incidence of hypothyroidism after partial thyroidectomy could be at least 10.9%, according to the findings of a retrospective analysis performed by a group from Melbourne, Australia.

Scarless transoral thyroidectomy or transoral vestibular approach (TOVA ... Although other types of thyroid and parathyroid techniques may not leave a scar on the neck, they do leave a scar at the ...