Pros and cons of robotic transaxillary thyroidectomy.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Longitudinal health-related quality of life after remote-access versus open thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026
   Pooled it
2. Optimizing robotic thyroid surgery: lessons learned from an retrospective analysis of 104 cases.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024
   Article
3. Comparative Study of Gasless Transaxillary, Bilateral Axillo-Breast, Unilateral Axillo-Breast With Carbon Dioxide Insufflation, Retroauricular, and Transoral Vestibular Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Approaches at a Single Institution: A Retrospective Analysis and Lessons Learned.Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology · 2022
   Article
4. Thyroid cancer surgery - in what direction are we going? A mini-review.The Journal of international medical research · 2020
   Review
5. Expanding indications of robotic thyroidectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2018
   Article
6. Propensity score-matched analysis of robotic versus endoscopic bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) thyroidectomy in papillary thyroid carcinoma.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2017
   Article
7. Robotic thyroidectomy and cervical neck dissection for thyroid cancer.Gland surgery · 2016
   Review
8. A survey of preferences regarding surgical approach to thyroid surgery.World journal of surgery · 2014
   Article
9. [Robot-assisted thyroid surgery].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2013
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Pros of robotic transaxillary thyroid surgery: its impact on cancer control and surgical quality.2012

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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