Scarless minimally invasive oral thyroidectomy

In the treatment of thyroid diseases, the existing drugs and surgical resection, in addition to the traditional open neck surgery, "oral endoscopic minimally invasive thyroid surgery" can remove thyroid lesions from small wounds in the mouth without leaving scars.

Ms. Wu, 60, found a lump in her left neck. After ultrasound examination, she found a 3 cm nodule on the left thyroid and calcification on the right thyroid. A malignant tumor is suspected. In order to avoid damaging recurrent laryngeal nerve, "nerve monitor" combined with "minimally invasive thyroidectomy with oral endoscope" was used to remove thyroid. Zhou Yiwei, a doctor from Tainan Municipal Hospital, said that traditional incision from the neck would leave scars, while minimally invasive thyroid surgery with oral endoscope would not leave scars, and it could also relieve pain.

The sound of "Donald Duck" is caused by the injury of recurrent laryngeal nerve.

Traditional thyroid surgery may damage recurrent laryngeal nerve. Dr Zhou Yiwei explained that the recurrent laryngeal nerve is the nerve responsible for speech. If it is damaged, the voice will be hoarse, and there may be a "Donald Duck" voice. The combination of "minimally invasive thyroid surgery through oral endoscope" and "intraoperative nerve monitor" can greatly reduce the damage probability of "recurrent laryngeal nerve" and reduce the hoarseness probability to about 65438 0%.

Dr. Zhou Yiwei said that in the treatment of thyroid diseases, in addition to the traditional open neck surgery, there is also an "oral endoscopic thyroid minimally invasive surgery", in which thyroid lesions are removed from a small wound in the mouth, washed with mouthwash twice a day after surgery to keep the wound clean and the wound suture will be absorbed by the body tissue. Postoperative pain is low. As long as you keep following up and take thyroid hormone, you can leave the hospital in two days without leaving huge scars.

Most female nodules with thyroid diseases are benign.

Thyroid nodules are quite common in Taiwan Province Province, with an average of 1 person in every 4 people suffering from nodules, and about 5- 10% of them are malignant (thyroid cancer), which cannot be ignored. Thyroid cancer first squeezed into 10 cancer 20 15. Thyroid diseases are particularly common in women, including benign goiter, hyperthyroidism and even thyroid cancer. Because they are asymptomatic in the initial stage, they can be identified by blood test, neck CT scan and fine needle aspiration cytology. In addition, ultrasound can detect early thyroid cancer, and people are advised to check it regularly.

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