As the authors of the paper state, the management of low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) remains controversial because of the indolent nature of the disease and the challenge of balancing morbidity of treatments with the risk of disease progression. The extent of thyroid resection is still a matter of debate: total thyroidectomy (TT) versus hemithyroidectomy (HT) (lobectomy plus isthmusectomy) using either a conventional neck incision or, in selected patients, a remoteaccess procedure, in this case the Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA)1 . In the article published in this issue, Sacco et al. report the results of an observational study analyzing retrospective data obtained from the electronic medical records of a cohort of 114 patients with low-risk DTC managed with HT though different surgical approaches (neck incision and remote transoral approach) between January 2015 and April 2023. The number of TH proced
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