Table 1.

Indications for TOETVA.

Type of indication	Specific indication
Motivational	Patients must be motivated to avoid a skin incision or an anterior cervical scar
Clinical	History of hypertrophic scarring
	Benign thyroid nodules
	Goiters (small to medium-size)
	Graves disease
	Papillary thyroid carcinoma (no evidence of local invasion or distant metastasis)