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Dr. Rossella Elisei is a pioneering surgeon whose work centers on advancing minimally invasive thyroid surgery through robotics, with a particular focus on the robot-assisted transaxillary thyroidectomy (RATT) technique. Her major contributions include critically evaluating the safety and efficacy of this approach, notably through the first documented report of benign track seeding after RATT (2020, 14 citations), which raised important safety considerations for the field. She has also provided comprehensive long-term follow-up data on oncologic and surgical outcomes for thyroid cancer patients treated with RATT (2023, 5 citations), demonstrating her commitment to evidence-based surgical innovation. Dr. Elisei has compared surgical completeness between RATT and conventional open total thyroidectomy (2023, 4 citations), offering valuable insights into procedural equivalence. Beyond technical outcomes, she has explored the broader implications of robotic surgery through work on ethics and telemedicine (2010, 4 citations), and has contributed to historical and future-oriented perspectives on robotics in minimally invasive procedures (2019, 9 citations). Her research is instrumental in guiding the safe adoption of robotic thyroid surgery, particularly in Western surgical contexts where the technique is less established.