Cuttack: The endocrine surgery department of SCB Medical College and Hospital successfully completed two endoscopic thyroid surgeries on Thursday, becoming the third government hospital in the country and the first in the state to do so.Until now only the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow and the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore had accomplished this surgery, said doctors of the Cuttack hospital. 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. Two female patients, a 32-year-old and a 41-year-old have undergone surgery free of cost. 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. 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. The scar expands later."

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