Background: Robot-assisted transaxillary thyroidectomy is a well-established remote-access thyroid procedure that has been demonstrated to be as safe and effective as its time-honored conventional clamp-and-tie counterpart. However, it has been incriminated for a set of unprecedented complications that surgeons need to be aware of and deal with appropriately.
Patient Findings: The patient is a young woman who underwent robot-assisted thyroid lobectomy for a sizeable nodule that was reported as benign after fine-needle aspiration cytology. She presented 3 years later with subcutaneous nodules along the surgical track that were found to represent seeding of benign thyroid tissue. This is the first report of benign thyroid tissue seeding after a gasless transaxillary procedure.
Summary: Seeding along the surgical track is a potential complication of gasless remote-access thyroid surgery, even in case of benign disease, that surgeons need to be acquainted with.
Conclusions: Surgeons should be aware of the potential for benign seeding after remote-access thyroid procedures. Accordingly, adequate precautions should be taken, patients should be counseled in this regard, and alternative medical strategies to control local seeding of thyroid tissue could be suggested.
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