Feasibility and safety of needle‐assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy with lateral neck dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma: a preliminary experience
Background Endoscopic thyroidectomy is popular among patients with cosmetic requirements. However, when lateral neck dissection (LND) is required, endoscopic surgery may be challenging. Therefore, we introduced needle‐assisted endoscopic technique to achieve endoscopic LND procedure and evaluated it...
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Published in | Head & neck Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 2367 - 2375 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Hoboken, USA
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
01.07.2019
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
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Summary: | Background
Endoscopic thyroidectomy is popular among patients with cosmetic requirements. However, when lateral neck dissection (LND) is required, endoscopic surgery may be challenging. Therefore, we introduced needle‐assisted endoscopic technique to achieve endoscopic LND procedure and evaluated its safety and feasibility in the present study.
Methods
Medical records of 37 patients who underwent needle‐assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy with LND were retrospectively reviewed.
Results
All of 37 patients had excellent cosmetic outcomes. The mean operative time was 338.2 ± 58.74 minutes. Mean number of lymph nodes retrieved in the lateral was 33.5 ± 11.69 and 15.9 ± 7.51 in the central neck. The rates of transient and permanent hypocalcemia were 32.4% and 2.7% and the rates of transient and permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy were 8.1% and 0%, respectively.
Conclusions
Needle‐assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy with lateral neck dissection shows potential feasibility but further study is needed to better characterize its safety and applicability. |
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Bibliography: | Funding information the Guiding Social Development Project of Fujian Province, Grant/Award Number: 2018Y0035; the Medical Innovation Project of Fujian Provinc, Grant/Award Number: 2018‐CX‐17; the Professor Academic Development Fund of Fujian Medical Universit, Grant/Award Number: JS15017; The Minimally Invasive Medicine Center of Fujian Province; the Startup Fund for scientific research of Fujian Medical University, Grant/Award Number: 2017XQ1037; the Youth Research Project in the Health System and Birth Control Commission of Fujian Province, Grant/Award Number: 2017‐2‐22 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1043-3074 1097-0347 |
DOI: | 10.1002/hed.25705 |