Thyroid cancer is a most common solid organ cancer in South Korea, according to 2014 statistics from Korea Central Cancer Registry.~The most important treatment of thyroid cancer is a surgery. Principle of thyroid cancer surgery is cancer-involved thyroid gland resection and central/lateral compartment of neck node dissection.~Part of surgical complications associated with neck lymph node dissection are seroma and chyle leakage. Incidence of seroma and chyle leakage have been reported as 4-5% and 1-7% in previous studies. Currently, there's no effective agents to prevent these complications.~Polyglycolic Acid Mesh Sheet (NeoveilTM) is a tissue strengthening repair agent which is prevent air or fluid leakage. It's effects were proven in various surgical field - prevent air leakage in lung surgery, reduce pancreatic fistula in pancreas surgery and so on. However, there's no result in thyroid cancer surgery.~This study will investigate the usability of NeoveilTM in thyroid cancer surgery and have the effect of preventing seroma and chyle leakage.
This study is a randomized controlled study to investigate the effect of Polyglycolic Acid Mesh Sheet (NeoveilTM) on the thyroid cancer surgery.