Preliminary Study on Safety of Robotic or Endoscopic Thyroidectomy via Bilateral Axillo-breast Approach (BABA) without Drainage Procedure: Multicenter Trial

A comparison study of the transoral and bilateral axillo‐breast approaches in robotic thyroidectomy

“…The period of hospitalization was defined from the day of surgery to the discharge. According to a previously reported study, drainage was not used in all the operations using BABA . Drainage was used in all the TORT procedures because of the concern about postoperative infection.…”