Postoperative Pain of Robotic, Endoscopic and Open Lateral Neck Dissection
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Observations on postoperative pain intensity.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pain, Postoperative, Thyroid Diseases, Surgery. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- China
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
Postoperative pain is a good indicator to confirm the advantages of the surgical methods in the era of minimally invasive surgery. Lateral neck dissection requires extensive dissection which may leads to postoperative numbness and pain. Robotic thyroid surgery has the advantage of precise and careful dissection and avoid the L-shape incision in the open approach. The study aims to explore the pain intensity and severity of lateral neck dissection on operation day, postoperative month 1 and postoperative month 3 among the robotic, endoscopic and open approach.
Interventions
- Other Observations on postoperative pain intensity
pain intensity was assessed using a standard visual analogue score, with a score of 0 to 10 corresponding to no pain to the most severe pain on operation day, postoperative day 1, postoperative month 1, postoperative month 3
Primary outcome measures
- degree of pain [Time frame: approximately 4 hours after surgery, on postoperative day 1, postoperative month 1 and postoperative month 3]
- Number of participants with recurrent laryngeal nerve injury [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year]
- Number of participants with hypoparathyroidism [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients underwent lateral neck dissection via robotic, endoscopic or open approach
- Clinical diagnosis of differentiated thyroid cancer
- Clinical diagnosis of metastatic lateral lymph nodes
Exclusion criteria
- Participants with distant metastasis
- Participants with history of neck surgery or radiation
- Participants with vocal fold fixation by preoperative fibrolaryngoscope
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
China · 1 center
- Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital — Shanghai
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06803732 · 2025-KY-095(K)