Recent advances in the minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of small thyroid nodules have helped reduce postoperative pain, improve cosmetic outcomes, and potentially reduce the length of hospitalization. Technical innovations, improvements in the prevailing operating techniques, minimally invasive instruments, and an advanced understanding of the endoscopic anatomy of the neck have helped thyroid procedures advance from conventional to modern techniques such as transcervical endoscopic-assisted thyroidectomy, transaxillary, bilateral axillo-breast, and retro auricular approaches. This transition was fuelled by the need to avoid a neck scar as open thyroidectomy involved potential complications of scars such as paraesthesia/dysesthesias, local pain, hypertrophy of the scar, and keloid formation.
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