TY  - JOUR
T1  - BIlateral robotic-assisted transaxillary surgery
AU  - Landry CS, Grubbs EG, Perrier ND
Y1  - 2010/08/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2010.117
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 717
EP  - 720
VL  - 145
IS  - 8
N2  - Hypothesis 
    Robotic-assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) for the removal of thyroid glands is feasible by surgeons in the United States.Design 
    Case report.Setting 
    Academic research.Patient 
    A 53-year-old woman.Intervention 
    Total thyroidectomy via the transaxillary approach.Main Outcome Measure 
    Successful completion thyroidectomy using bilateral RATS.Results 
    Right thyroid lobectomy was performed via RATS to remove a 2.2-cm Hurthle cell neoplasm of the thyroid gland per cytologic analysis. Final pathologic analysis was consistent with minimally invasive follicular thyroid carcinoma. The patient then underwent completion thyroidectomy via left-sided RATS. There were no complications.Conclusions 
    Bilateral RATS to perform total thyroidectomy is a feasible option in properly selected patients. To our knowledge, this is the first reported use of this technique in the United States.
SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.117
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2010.117
ER  -