ArticleSurgical endoscopy2016
Oncologic outcomes of robotic thyroidectomy: 5-year experience with propensity score matching.
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- A meta-analysis of unilateral axillary approach for robotic surgery compared with open surgery for differentiated thyroid carcinoma.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Robotic surgery versus open surgery for thyroid neoplasms: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2020Pooled it
- Robotic thyroidectomy versus conventional open thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2017Pooled it
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- [Current application and future development trends of robotic head and neck surgery].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2025Review
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- Influence of Otolaryngological Subspecialties on Perception of Transoral Robotic Surgery: An International YO-IFOS Survey.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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- Five-Year Oncologic Outcome and Surgical Completeness of Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Comparison with Conventional Transcervical Thyroidectomy Using Propensity Score Matching.Annals of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- Adoption of otolaryngologist-head neck surgeons toward transoral robotic surgery: An international survey.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2023Article
- Safety and Feasibility of Single-Port Trans-Axillary Robotic Thyroidectomy: Experience through Consecutive 100 Cases.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Combined thoracoscopic and axillary subcutaneous endoscopic thyroidectomy: a novel approach for cervicomediastinal goiters.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- Remote Access Thyroid Surgery: A Review of Literature.Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2022Review
- Detailed comparison of the da Vinci Xi and S surgical systems for transaxillary thyroidectomy.Medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe oncologic outcome of robotic thyroidectomy is not yet well established. The aim of this study was to evaluate the recurrence rate after robotic thyroidectomy in comparison with conventional thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).
methodsWe analyzed 896 patients with PTC who either underwent robotic (212 patients using a gasless unilateral axillary or an axillo-breast approach) or conventional cervical thyroidectomy (684 patients) with/without central neck dissection between October 2008 and February 2014. We excluded patients who underwent concomitant lateral neck dissection or completion thyroidectomy, and cases with T4 tumor, tumor lager than 4 cm, other types of thyroid cancer, recurrent cancer, and distant metastasis. A propensity score matching analysis was done with ten covariates including age, gender, body mass index, tumor size, multifocality, bilaterality, extrathyroidal extension, type of thyroidectomy, extent of central neck dissection, and RAI ablation to reduce selection bias.
resultsIn baseline data, the male ratio and the mean age were lower in the robotic group. Stage, multifocality, and bilaterality were higher in the conventional group. The rate of total thyroidectomy was higher in the conventional group. The two matched groups of each 185 patients were produced and well balanced by propensity score matching. In the comparison of propensity score matched groups, operative time was longer in the robotic group (P < 0.001), and postoperative complications did not differ between the two groups, except for transient hypoparathyroidism and formation of seroma. The recurrence rate did not differ between the two groups after a mean follow-up of 43.6 months (0.5 and 1.1 % in the robotic and conventional groups, respectively, P = 0.375).
conclusionThe oncologic outcome of robotic thyroidectomy in 5-year experience is comparable to that of conventional thyroidectomy in selected patients with PTC.
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