Abstract

This study aims to make a comparison between endoscopic thyroid surgery and conventional surgery and assess the quality of life of patients after the operation where information and demographic data were collected for 80 patients, and the patients were distributed according to the type of technique used in thyroid surgery (55 patients with thyroid surgery) (25 patients with conventional surgery). This study was designed according to a questionnaire distributed to patients to know the type of complications that were obtained after the operation and Comparison of quality-of-life parameters between the group undergoing trans-oral endoscopic thyroidectomy and the group undergoing conventional open thyroidectomy for the first three months. The hospital stay (range 2-4 days) was for endoscopic patients as for patients those who underwent conventional thyroid surgery (3-8 days). The mean operation time in our study was 118 ± 33 minutes for cataract patients, 90.3 ± 33.5 for conventional surgery patients. The patient’s pain intensity was assessed over a period of 3 months, and it was noted that the pain intensity increased over the first three months by 40%, and this is clear evidence that endoscopic surgery provides better results than the Conventional surgery.

Keywords

Endoscopic, questionnaire, conventional, thyroidectomy, VAS, BMI