Summary:
Endoscopic thyroid surgery is also known as remote-access thyroid surgery.There are two approaches, one is performed through the underarms and is known as the bilalateral axillio breast approach. Two female patients, a 32-year-old and a 41-year-old have undergone surgery free of cost. A team of eight doctors, including two from the Lucknow institute, performed the surgery with the assistance of surgeons from SCB.The team was headed by S K Mishra , head of the department of endocrine surgery at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute.Each surgery takes two hours. The scar expands later." The advantage of such a surgery is prevention of scars near the neck area.Dr Gyan Chand , additional professor of the endocrine surgery department at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute, who performed this surgery said, "In the conventional thyroid surgery, we operate from the lower part of the neck, where a scar remains forever..