Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted versus Minimally Invasive Nonendoscopic Thyroidectomy

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	MIVAT	MINET
𝑁	60	71
TTE	40	41
HTE	20*	30
Age (years)	40±14 (17–75)	37±14 (10–68)
Gender (males/females)	6/54	6/66

MIVAT: minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy; MINET: minimally invasive nonendoscopic thyroidectomy; TTE: total thyroidectomy; HTE: hemithyroidectomy; *2 cases of isthmectomies were analyzed together with hemithyroidectomies.