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Comparative Analysis of Transoral Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy Vestibular Approach and Focused Open Surgery for Primary Hyperparathyroidism Treatment: A Single Center Experience.

BACKGROUND Primary hyperparathyroidism is one of the most common endocrine disorders, for which the definitive treatment is surgical parathyroidectomy. Generally, surgical exploration is performed as open focused neck surgery. The vestibular route is a new approach to minimally invasive endoscopic parathyroidectomy. This retrospective study from a single center in Turkey aimed to compare surgical outcomes from the transoral endoscopic vestibular approach (TOEPVA) vs direct open parathyroidectomy in 57 patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Our study included data from 57 patients. TOEPVA was performed in 20 of these patients who did not want a cervical scar, and focused surgery was performed in the remaining 37 patients. The variables we analyzed were size, volume, and localization of the adenoma, operative time, presence of bleeding, presence of the recurrent laryngeal nerve damage, preoperative, short-term, and long-term postoperative PTH levels, use of drain, presence of postoperative hypocalcemia, and short-term and long-term calcium levels. RESULTS No laryngeal nerve and mental nerve damage was observed in either group. The mean operative time in focused open surgery was 80.54±33.1 min, while the mean operative time in TOEPVA was 128.21±30.88 (p: 0.794) min. The mean hospitalization period of patients who underwent open surgery was 3.29±1.9 days, while the mean discharge days of patients who underwent endoscopic surgery was 2.40±1.2. (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS TOEPVA is a safe method in patients who underwent parthyroid surgery to avoid cervical scarring.

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