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SUBMITTER: Kim HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6483931 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Hong Kyu HK Park Dawon D Kim Hoon Yub HY
Annals of surgical treatment and research 20190424 5
Transoral robotic thyroidectomy (TORT) is well consistent with the primary goal of remote-access thyroid surgery, which is to avoid a visible cervical scar. Additionally, the extent of transoral thyroidectomy dissection is less than that of other remote-access surgical procedures. Owing to these merits of the transoral approach, several institutions around the world are now performing this procedure. Since transoral thyroidectomy is performed in a confined, narrow space, and is characterized by ...[more]