Transoral thyroidectomy is an established remote-access alternative to open thyroidectomy, performed mainly as the transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach or transoral robotic thyroidectomy. Their comparative safety and oncologic performance remain under investigation.
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change — this study is about thyroid surgery and has no relevance to audiology practice.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
This study does not bear on audiology; it is included here likely due to a content pipeline error.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01Multicenter cohort of 2,144 patients compared robotic vs. endoscopic transoral thyroidectomy.
- 02Both approaches used the vestibular (mouth) route — unrelated to the auditory or vestibular system in audiology.
- 03No hearing-health, hearing-loss, or audiological outcomes were assessed.
- 04No clinical or research relevance to audiologists, hearing specialists, or patients with hearing loss.
✦ Research metadata ✦
- PMID
- 42330608
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.surg.2026.110343.
- Journal
- Surgery
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Sample size
- 2,144
- Population
- Patients undergoing transoral thyroidectomy via the vestibular approach
- Intervention
- Robotic transoral thyroidectomy via vestibular approach
- Comparator
- Endoscopic transoral thyroidectomy via vestibular approach
Primary outcomes
Comparative surgical outcomes between robotic and endoscopic transoral thyroidectomy