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To identify and define the critical surgical and plastic surgery principles that optimize cosmetic outcomes in patients undergoing thyroidectomy.

June 22, 2007The Laryngoscope

Cosmetic Thyroid Surgery: Defining the Essential Principles

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DTDavid J. TerrisAugusta University MSMelanie W. SeybtAugusta University MEMayssoun A. El‐ChoufiHumana (United States)

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Prospective nonrandomized study reveals key surgical principles reducing scar size and improving cosmesis in thyroidectomy patients, suggesting plastic surgery techniques enhance outcomes.

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To identify and define the critical surgical and plastic surgery principles that optimize cosmetic outcomes in patients undergoing thyroidectomy.
Prospective, nonrandomized evaluation of 248 consecutive patients (50 males, 198 females; mean age 44.9 ± 14.6 years) undergoing thyroid surgery between September 2003 and June 2006.
Assigned patients to conventional thyroidectomy, minimally invasive nonendoscopic thyroidectomy (MINET), or endoscopic thyroidectomy based on disease and patient criteria.
Incision lengths measured 92.4 ± 22.3 mm for conventional thyroidectomy (n=77, 31.0%), 46.4 ± 9.9 mm for MINET (n=120, 48.4%), and 24.3 ± 5.9 mm for endoscopic thyroidectomy (n=51, 20.6%).
Factors contributing most to optimal cosmetic outcomes included marking incisions while the patient is sitting upright, resecting skin edges during closure, avoiding subplatysmal flaps and drains, and using 2-octyl cyanoacrylate (Dermabond).

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Terris et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a968eb165cd0d1d26bb74a0 https://doi.org/10.1097/mlg.0b013e318053db8f

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Prospective nonrandomized study reveals key surgical principles reducing scar size and improving cosmesis in thyroidectomy patients, suggesting plastic surgery techniques enhance outcomes.

Cosmetic Thyroid Surgery: Defining the Essential Principles

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Cosmetic Thyroid Surgery: Defining the Essential Principles

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