Postoperative swallowing disorder after thyroid and parathyroid resection

Postoperative infectious complications after pancreatic resection.

BACKGROUND Although mortality associated with pancreatic surgery has decreased dramatically, high morbidity rates are still of major concern. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of, and risk factors for, infectious complications after pancreatic surgery. METHODS The Japanese Society of Pancreatic Surgery conducted a multi-institutional analysis of complications in patients who underwe...

Thyroid and parathyroid scintigraphy

Thyroid and Parathyroid

Goiters (from the Latin guttur, throat) have been known since 2700 b.c., long before the thyroid gland was recognized. The thyroid gland was first documented by the Italians of the Renaissance period. Leonardo da Vinci originally depicted the thyroid in his drawings as two separate glands on either side of the larynx. The term thyroid gland (Greek thyreoeides, shield-shaped) is attributed to Th...

Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

Demographics Diseases of the thyroid gland were demonstrated to occur in 3.7% of 4,819 school-aged children at initial examination in the United States; in a followup examination 20 years later, the prevalence had increased to 10.5%.1 About half of these are diffuse gland hypertrophy or simple goiter. Thyroiditis was the second most common abnormality, followed by thyroid nodules and functional...

Thyroid and parathyroid ultrasound.

Thyroid ultrasound is easy to perform due to the superficial location of the thyroid gland, but appropriate equipment is mandatory with a linear high frequency transducer (7.5 - 12) MHz. Some pathological aspects of the thyroid gland are easily diagnosed by ultrasound, like the enlargement of the thyroid volume (goiter) or the presence of nodules and cysts; while other aspects are more difficul...