| Triala | Benignb | Malignantb |
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1 | Yoo HH et al. | 2:17 | 44:148 |
2 | Tae K et al. | 21:59 | 92:46 |
3 | Lee S et al. | – | 580:570 |
4 | Lee J et al. | 11:41 | 152:55 |
5 | Lang BHH et al. | 6:35 | 1:4 |
6 | Kim WW et al. | – | 69:95 |
- aIn these studies, patients in the two groups were matched for operation time[11–14, 16], conversion[11–16], complication[11–16], amount of drainage fluid[11, 12, 14, 16], length of post-operative hospital stay[11–14, 16], number of lymph nodes harvested[11–14, 16].
- bBenign/malignant: ratio of post-operative histology in robotic thyroidectomy or endoscopic thyroidectomy. Two studies did not have any benign tumors included.