Surgeons have performed robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery to remove the thyroid gland without an incision or scar on the patient's neck. Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center ...

September 29, 2009 (Palm Beach, Florida) — The preoperative thyroid lobe volume, as assessed by ultrasound, can be used to determine the appropriate incision length needed for minimally invasive ...

A facelift incision and robotics can help surgeons safely remove a portion of a diseased thyroid from some patients without the characteristic neck scar. Surgeons developed the technique utilizing the ...

Length of the incision as a dependent variable was strongly correlated with thyroid volume and neck circumference and weakly correlated with BMI. The duration of the operation was only weakly ...

Minimally invasive surgical approaches that reduce incision size and recovery time from thyroid surgery work well in children, physician-scientists report. Minimally invasive surgical approaches that ...

An incision about half the length used for traditional surgery works just as well in removing diseased thyroids, researchers have found. This minimally invasive approach is safe, likely speeds wound ...

Robots can be employed to remove a diseased thyroid, or at least a portion of it, without the hallmark neck incision, researchers said. The thyroid, which sits just under the Adam’s apple and controls ...

Guided by surgeons at a console, the da Vinci Surgical System enables access to the thyroid through the armpit, thereby avoiding the hallmark neck incision. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth ...

image: Robots that revolutionized gynecologic and urologic surgery in the past decade now offer the option of removing at least a portion of their diseased thyroid gland without the hallmark neck ...