Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech
June 2024
Background: Transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) is newly applied technology. Carbon nanoparticles (CNs) are novel lymph node tracers that have been widely used in China to help remove central lymph nodes (CLNs) and protect the parathyroid glands (PGs) in open thyroid cancer surgery. This study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of CNs in TOETVA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) and gasless transaxillary endoscopic thyroidectomy (GTET) are 2 newly applied technologies. This study is to compare the 2 approaches from the aspects of effectiveness and safety.
Materials And Methods: A total of 339 patients who underwent TOETVA or GTET with unilateral papillary thyroid carcinoma were enrolled in this study from March 2019 to February 2022.