Initial Experience With a Gasless Unilateral Axillo-Breast or Axillary Approach Endoscopic Thyroidectomy for Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Comparison With Conventional Open Thyroidectomy
- Title
- Initial Experience With a Gasless Unilateral Axillo-Breast or Axillary Approach Endoscopic Thyroidectomy for Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Comparison With Conventional Open Thyroidectomy
- Author
- 조석현
- Keywords
- Adult; Axilla; surgery; Breast; Carcinoma; Endoscopy; methods; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Patient Satisfaction; Questionnaires; Retrospective Studies; Thyroid Neoplasms; diagnosis; Thyroidectomy; Treatment Outcome
- Issue Date
- 2011-06
- Publisher
- LIPPINCOTT, WILLIAMS & WILIKINS
- Citation
- Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques, 2011, 21(3), P.162-169
- Abstract
- The efficacy of various endoscopic thyroidectomy has not been determined for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC). We compared 31 consecutive patients with PTMC who underwent endoscopic thyroidectomy by a gasless unilateral axillo-breast or axillary approach, and the 36 PTMC patients who underwent conventional open thyroid lobectomy from August 2005 to December 2008. There were more female patients (P=0.004) in the endoscopic group, and the mean age of endoscopic group was younger than that of the open thyroidectomy group (P=0.006). The entire endoscopic thyroidectomy was successfully completed in all the patients. The operative time was longer for those undergoing endoscopic thyroidectomy (P<0.001). The complication rate did not differ between the 2 groups. The cosmetic satisfaction, as evaluated by questionnaire, was greater in the endoscopic group (P<0.001). Endoscopic thyroidectomy by a gasless unilateral axillo-breast or axillary approach for selected cases of PTMC is a feasible, safe, and cosmetically superior procedure.
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- https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00129689-201106000-00006http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/66677
- ISSN
- 1530-4515
- DOI
- 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318218d1a4
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- COLLEGE OF MEDICINE[S](의과대학) > MEDICINE(의학과) > Articles
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