نبذة مختصرة : BACKGROUND: Recently, endoscope has been widely used in thyroid surgery and gasless insufflation transaxillary endoscopic thyroidectomy (GTET) has been the mainstay of thyroid surgery. Parathyroid gland (PG) damage is a common complication of thyroid surgery. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of GTET on hypoparathyroidism (HPT) in patients with thyroid cancer. METHODS: According to the surgical approach, the patients were divided into a GTET group and a conventional open thyroidectomy (COT) group. Univariate analysis and logistic regression were used to identify factors associated with PG injury. The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for each independent variable were calculated. RESULTS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 405 patients diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). A total of 51 patients experienced PG injury, including 7 cases (5%) of GTET group and 44 cases (16.5%) of COT group (P
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