Purpose: The techniques for minimally invasive surgery in various surgical fields have recently become markedly developed. The endoscopic surgical methods for head and neck surgery have been introduced somewhat later due to some technical limitations....
Purpose: The techniques for minimally invasive surgery in various surgical fields have recently become markedly developed. The endoscopic surgical methods for head and neck surgery have been introduced somewhat later due to some technical limitations. However, various endoscopic techniques have been remarkably developed during the last 10 years. We also introduced a novel method of gasless endoscopic thyroidectomy using the trans-axillary approach. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and surgical outcome of this method for treating patients with benign thyroid tumor.