Single-port robotic areolar surgery for thyroid and neck procedures: a 3-year, 500-case single-surgeon experience using the da-Vinci SP system.

The mean age was 43.1 ± 11.3 years, and 94.8% of patients were female.

Among total-thyroidectomy-status patients, early postoperative biochemical hypoparathyroidism and persistent early biochemical hypoparathyroidism at 2 weeks were observed in 19.8% and 6.6%, respectively.

MRND yielded 31.16 ± 12.71 retrieved and 8.74 ± 5.43 metastatic lymph nodes.

At 3 months, 78 of 86 measured patients (90.7%) had unstimulated thyroglobulin < 1.0 ng/mL.