Transoral thyroidectomy-learning curve.

Professor Bertelli and cols. from Brazil have reported their early experience and complications during learning curve of transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) (). The authors have described their early experience of multiple institutions in Brasil having learned TOETVA either in Korea or in John Hopkins-Baltimore. They developed a study group, TOETVA-Bra. Two of the authors are from Johns Hopkins who have larger experience. The authors have reported a collective early experience of 93 patients undergoing TOETVA. Fifty-eight percent had [...]