Happy 20th birthday to minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy!

G Dionigi; H Dralle; G Materazzi; H Y Kim; P Miccoli

doi:10.1007/s40618-019-01119-1

Happy 20th birthday to minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy!

J Endocrinol Invest. 2020 Mar;43(3):385-388. doi: 10.1007/s40618-019-01119-1. Epub 2019 Sep 25.

Authors

G Dionigi¹, H Dralle², G Materazzi³, H Y Kim⁴, P Miccoli³

Affiliations

¹ Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi'', University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Via C. Valeria 1, 98125, Messina, Italy. gdionigi@unime.it.
² Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Section of Endocrine Surgery, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
³ Division of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Critical Area, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotic Surgery Center, KUMC Thyroid Center Korea University, Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

PMID: 31556010
DOI: 10.1007/s40618-019-01119-1

No abstract available

Keywords: Benign disease; Endoscopic thyroidectomy; Indications; Learning curve; MIVAT; Malignant disease; Miccoli; Minimally invasive surgery; Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy.

Publication types

Historical Article
Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Female
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Male
Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / history*
Thyroid Neoplasms / history*
Thyroid Neoplasms / surgery
Thyroidectomy / history*
Video-Assisted Surgery / history*