Introduction

Thyroid surgeries have evolved over time from late 19^th century where patient safety and mortality was a concern to the present age, where various minimally invasive and scarless surgeries are evolving.

Most of the endoscopic thyroid surgeries are based on the principle of hiding the scar within neck creases or just shifting the neck scar to axilla, areola of chest of the patient.

Vestibular approach to thyroid is truly a NOTES surgery which absolutely leaves no scar and addresses the issue of manoeuvrability faced during sublingual transoral approach.

Our novel study is an attempt to access thyroid gland via oral vestibule to achieve a scar free thyroidectomy.

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Vivek Kumar Singh

Department of General Surgery,

Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, Pin 41101