Safety, short-term patient-reported outcomes, and cosmetic satisfaction of gasless transaxillary endoscopic thyroidectomy: a retrospective analysis of 530 patients
Yifan He, Jie Yuan, Xiyu He, Yawen Bai, Zesheng Zeng, Jianfeng Sheng · 2026
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Yifan He and five co-authors review a scar-free thyroid operation in a 2026 study. The method reaches the thyroid through the armpit with a camera, leaving the neck unmarked. It suits one-sided thyroid disease and has spread quickly, but its safety record at scale needed checking.
The team reviewed 530 straight cases from 2023 to 2026, most of them thyroid cancers. Only four patients needed a switch to open surgery mid-way, and none kept a lasting voice nerve injury. Bleeding after surgery touched about one percent. Hormone and calcium checks, chest and neck comfort scores, and cosmetic satisfaction were tracked for months. Splitting the cancer cases by date let the authors trace the learning curve.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yifan He, Jie Yuan, Xiyu He, Yawen Bai, Zesheng Zeng, Jianfeng Sheng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |