Germany: Preoperative calcium supplementation may help improve postoperative quality of life and reduce symptoms of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Operative management with total thyroidectomy will not be the best option for all older adults with Graves’ ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changes in thyrotropin-binding inhibitory immunoglobulin levels for people with refractory Graves’ disease ...

Total thyroidectomy boosted patient-reported general health in euthyroid Hashimoto's thyroiditis for up to 5 years, an extension of a randomized trial showed. Measured via the Short Form-36 Health ...

Total thyroidectomy can be recommended for the treatment of benign bilateral thyroid disease, suggest Barczynski et al. The optimal extent of surgery for the treatment of bilateral benign thyroid ...

Although consensus guidelines recommend total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) ≥1 cm, it remains unclear whether this procedure confers a survival advantage. This was a retrospective ...

Patients undergoing a total thyroidectomy are 34 percent less likely to experience complications if their surgeon performs at least 25 cases per year of this operation to remove the entire thyroid ...

In a nonrandomized study of adults with hyperthyroidism or euthyroidism, neither patient group saw a significantly higher rate of complications after total thyroidectomy, according to Eric Mirallié, ...

Background: Graves' disease represents an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland where surgery has an important role in its treatment. The aim of our paper was to analyze the results of surgical ...

Surgery for hyperthyroidism is uncommon. At this center, only about 7% of the 4139 patients referred for thyroid surgery had hyperthyroidism. In this randomized trial, which spanned a 5-year period, ...

The thyroid is a small gland shaped like a butterfly. It’s located in the lower front part of the neck, just below the voice box. The thyroid produces hormones that the blood carries to every tissue ...

A healthy 43-year-old woman was referred to the surgeon with an incidental nodule on the right side of her thyroid, which had been found when she underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for mild ...