Different Approaches for Thyroid Surgery.

Introduction: Surgery remains main treatment of choice for thyroid nodule for diagnosis and treatment. Conventional thyroid surgery gives scar in the neck so many young patients particularly unmarried females demand thyroid surgery without visible scar in the neck for cosmetic reason. Extra cervical approaches have continued to evolve with an increasing body of research (Sarda AK, Bal S, Kapoor MM (1989) Near-total thyroidectomy for carcinoma of thyroid.