Experience of endovideosurgical hemithyroidectomy use for patients with benign thyroid diseases

Objective: development and assessment of the way of an endoscopic hemithyroidectomy improving visualization of anatomical structures and excluding «the confict of tools». Material and Methods. Results of treatment of 103 patients who transferred hemithyroidectomy from endoscopic and traditional approaches to the period from 2014 to 2018 on the basis of the Hospital of S. R. Mirotvortsev (Saratov) are analyzed. According to access option patients were divided into 2 groups. The compression syndrome, functional autonomy of a thyroid gland and results of a puncture biopsy were indications to operation. Results. Unilateral paresis of a throat is diagnosed for 1 patient after traditional intervention, stopped within 1.5 months, after an endovideosurgical hemithyroidectomy - for 3 patients, and was stopped in terms from 7 days up to 1.5 months. Signs of hypoparathyrosis were not found in the groups of patients. The complications connected with administration of carbon dioxide did not arise. Conversionwas not required in any case. Conclusion. Development and assessment of a new way of an endoscopic hemithyroidectomy which is feasible, safe and provides high degree of esthetic result.