IZMIR, Turkey
A Turkish surgeon in Western Turkey is training doctors from around the world on closed thyroid surgery.
Dr. Ozer Makay, a general surgeon and professor at Ege University in Izmir province, conducted his first transoral thyroid surgery in 2017.
Makay and his team later led the establishment in the university of a physician training center on performing the endoscopic procedure -- one of four in Europe. They have performed surgeries in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and the Netherlands.
Transoral endoscopic thyroid surgery is a procedure on the thyroid gland that differs from other forms of the