TOETVA – transoral thyroid surgery

Visiting Police General Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand where this operation has been developed.

 

TOETVA (Transoral endocopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach)

Without any incision in the neck (=scarless), thyroid surgery is performed minimally invasive (=endoscopically by using a camera) through small incisions in the oral cavity. This kind of surgery is suitable for most patients with small thyroid glands and/or small nodules (<4 cm).

Contact me for details!

Intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery

At an international symposium for intraoperative neurostimulation (Vienna, Austria), Prof. Philipp Riss was invited to give the opening talk about “Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery”.

You can see the talk here in german (or klick here):

 

Further information regarding intraoperative monitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve: