Tailoring the Message: A Survey of Patients' Information Needs and Preferences Before Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy via the Vestibular Approach.

TOETVA patients rated procedural details, TOETVA-specific risks-particularly mental nerve injury-and general thyroidectomy complications as highly important (≥ 4.7/5), with recall and satisfaction exceeding 90%.

In the TOETVA cohort, transient recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy occurred in 7.4% and transient hypocalcaemia in 6.1%, with no permanent events; mental nerve paraesthesia affected 30.9%, persisting at 6 months in 4.4%.