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Methods: The data on SPRA and BABA thyroid surgery performed at the authors\u2019 hospital from December 2022 to December 2023 were analyzed. Results: 111 SPRA and 159 BABA surgeries were performed. SPRA was performed overwhelmingly on women (1 man vs. 110 women), and the body mass index (BMI) was lower in SPRA patients (23.63 \u00b1 3.49 vs. 25.71 \u00b1 4.39, p &lt; 0.001). The proportion of total thyroidectomy was significantly higher in BABA patients, and a modified radical neck dissection (MRND) was only performed using the BABA method. The time for flap formation before robot docking was significantly shorter in SPRA patients (12.08 \u00b1 3.99 vs. 18.34 \u00b1 5.84 min, p &lt; 0.001). Postoperative drain amount was also significantly lower in SPRA patients (53.87 \u00b1 35.45 vs. 81.74 \u00b1 30.26 mL, p &lt; 0.001). Hospital stay after surgery was significantly shorter with SPRA (3.04 \u00b1 0.48 vs. 3.36 \u00b1 0.73 days, p &lt; 0.001). Thyroglobulin levels after a total thyroidectomy (0.06 \u00b1 0.13 vs. 0.45 \u00b1 0.78, p = 0.002) and stimulated Tg level before the RAI (1.03 \u00b1 0.74 vs. 5.01 \u00b1 13.63, p = 0.046) were significantly lower in the SPRA group. No significant differences were observed between the two groups according to the postoperative complications, including vocal cord palsy and hypoparathyroidism. Conclusions: Based on the authors\u2019 experience, SPRA is a less invasive robot thyroid surgery method than BABA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm13185486","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,16]],"date-time":"2024-09-16T11:36:37Z","timestamp":1726486597000},"page":"5486","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["One-Year Clinical Experience of Single-Port and Multi-Port Robotic Thyroid Surgery in a Single Institution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Sun Min","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Inha University Hospital & College of Medicine, Incheon 22332, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Robot Surgery Center, Inha University Hospital, Incheon 22332, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-6839-5949","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hilal","family":"Hwang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Inha University Hospital & College of Medicine, Incheon 22332, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Myung Ho","family":"Shin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Inha University Hospital & College of Medicine, Incheon 22332, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9296-8443","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jin Wook","family":"Yi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Inha University Hospital & College of Medicine, Incheon 22332, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Robot Surgery Center, Inha University Hospital, Incheon 22332, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"04084","DOI":"10.7189\/jogh.14.04084","article-title":"Trends and projections of the global burden of thyroid cancer from 1990 to 2030","volume":"14","author":"Hu","year":"2024","journal-title":"J. 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