Surgical Competency for Robot-Assisted Thyroidectomy: Construction and Validation of a Robotic Thyroidectomy Assessment Score (RTAS)

ConditionsThyroid Cancer Thyroid Nodule Thyroid Diseases Thyroid Cancer, Papillary Thyroid Cancer, Follicular

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

AgeNot listed

SponsorShanghai 6th People's Hospital

About this trial

To develop and validate a structured scoring tool (robotic thyroidectomy assessment score, RTAS) for assessing and quantifying surgical performance in robotic thyroidectomy (RT).

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Clinical diagnosis of differentiated thyroid cancer with a maximum diameter not exceeding 4 cm

Clinical diagnosis of benign thyroid nodules with a maximum diameter not exceeding 6 cm

Participants with high cosmetic expectations

Participants underwent robotic thyroidectomy without open conversion

Disqualifiers

Participants with history of neck surgery or radiation

Participants with vocal fold fixation by preoperative fibrolaryngoscope

Participants with preoperative examination suggestive of distant invasion

Participants with fusion or fixed of lymph nodes in the neck

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

Observations on clinicopathological factors influencing the assessment score of surgery

Treatment groups

200 Participants

are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators

Shanghai 6th People's Hospital

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov