Trial Comparing Complication Rates Associated With Robot-assisted Thyroidectomy to External Thyroidectomy

Inclusion Criteria: * The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent * The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan * The patient is available for 12 months of follow-up * The patient is a candidate for total thyroidectomy because of a nodular pathology, a diffuse goiter, thyroiditis, or Basedow's disease * Patient has calcitoninemia \< 9 ng/pl * Patient has normal calcemia * Patient has PTH level between 5 ng/l and 75 ng/l * The subject has a normal laryngeal mobility Exclusion Criteria: * The patient is participating in another study * The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study * The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship * The patient refuses to sign the consent * It is impossible to correctly inform the patient * The patient is pregnant * The patient is breastfeeding * The patient is not available for 12 months of follow-up * Subject has a preoperative diagnosis of cancer on fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid or cervical lymph node * Lymph node metastasis strongly suspected clinically and/or sonographically * The subject has an extension of substernal thyroid (diving goiter) * Family history of medullary thyroid cancer * The subject has a history of neck surgery * Contraindication for general anesthesia