Abstract
About 4years ago, we described the pure endoscopic cervical approach to posterior mediastinum parathyroid adenomas, which we called the "prevertebral cervical approach". At that time, we had operated on three patients and did not have enough quality videos to demonstrate this approach. After broadening our experience, we present our results and show this technique through a video. From June 2015 to January 2021, information on patients undergoing the prevertebral cervical approach was obtained from a specific prospective database, including clinical presentation, biochemistry, preoperative imaging, surgical approach and patient outcomes. The step by step technique is described for both right- and left-sided adenomas, by means of a short video clip. Ten patients were operated on using this technique. Seven adenomas were right-sided and three were left-sided. The mean surgical time was 33 ± 7min. There were neither intraoperative nor major postoperative complications. Seven patients presented with a slight subcutaneous emphysema, which did not cause complaints. All patients were discharged the day after surgery, except for one patient with a previous open neck removal of four glands due to secondary hyperparathyroidism, which required calcium replacement. Calcium and parathyroid hormone levels were normalised in the other nine patients after surgery. One patient experienced a transient recurrent laryngeal nerve injury which was spontaneously resolved within 1month. No permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve injury was found. The postoperative cosmetic outcomes were excellent. In our experience, the pure cervical endoscopic approach has shown a high feasibility and short operation time, with excellent postoperative results regarding patient comfort, length of stay and disease cure. This approach also offers a very reasonable procedure cost, and may result in a less aggressive surgical option when compared with thoracic approaches.
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