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. 2015 Oct;4(5):388–396. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2227-684X.2015.06.01

Table 1. For the robotic total thyroidectomy and ND, the instruments and materials needed additionally are summarized below.

Procedure Instruments or materials
Patient position • Arm board
• Soft pillow
Development of working space • Electrocautery with regular and extended-sized tip
• Vascular Debakey or Russian forceps (extended length)
• Army-navy retractor ×2
• Right-angled retractors ×2
• Breast lighted retractor ×2
• Endoscopic clip appliers
Maintenance of working space • Chung’s retractor (special set of retractor for ND)
• Table mount and suspension device (Marina Medical, Sunrise, USA)
Robotic procedure • 5 mm Maryland dissector
• 8 mm ProGrasp forceps
• 5 mm Harmonic curved shears
• Dual channel 30 degree endoscope (used in the rotated down position)
• Endoscopic graspers and forceps
• Endoscopic suction irrigator

ND, neck dissection.