Lateral access in thyroidectomy. Technique and indications
Pelizzo, M.R.; Toniato, A.; Briguglio, E.
Minerva Chirurgica 48(5): 189-191
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4733 PMID: 8506035 Document Number: 414053
The technique of thyroidectomy, systematically carried out, by the authors, with a lateral approach since 1987 in thyroid reoperations for benign and malignant relapses and sometimes even in primary operations, is presented. The authors point out that lateral way is both technically advantageous in reoperations and moreover oncologically in prethyroid muscles's malignant involvement, but it does not represent an alternative to median access that, in the first instance, is the elective one. Because of the lateral vascular ligatures, in order to preserve the recurrent nerve, its location is mandatory.