MIVAT: the last 2 years experience, tips and techniques after more than 10 years

Background Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) has been introduced into clinical practice by Miccoli in the late 1990s (Miccoli et al., Am J Surg 181(6):567–570, 2001) and it has become a widespread technique used and welcomed worldwide. In this paper, we present our experience of the last 2 years; we also describe tips and techniques derived from over 460 cases performed in the last 10 years by the same surgical team with the same single operator.