BACKGROUND Thyroidectomy is one of the common neck surgeries. Well recognized complications include postoperative bleeding, hypocalcaemia and recurrent laryngeal nerve injury. Chyle leak post-thyroidectomy is extremely rare. Most of the reported cases have had a complete central compartment neck dissection. METHODS AND RESULTS This is a case report of a patient who suffered from chyle leak af...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic utility of BRAF mutation testing on thyroid nodules "suspicious for papillary thyroid carcinoma" (PTC) cytology. METHODS A chart review of patients with fine-needle aspiration (FNA) results "suspicious for PTC" with subsequent thyroidectomy was performed. Corresponding archived FNA slides underwent BRAF mutation testing. RE...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the complication rates between completion thyroidectomy and primary total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). METHODS PubMed, the Web of Knowledge, and the China Journal Net were searched for studies concerning the treatment of DTC published in 1990-2014. A meta-analysis was performed to compare the effects of different treatm...

UNLABELLED Three-dimensional (3D) minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) was carried out with a 4-mm, 3D 0-degree stereoscopic endoscope. The procedure was applied on 3 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and data were prospectively collected. Operative time for total thyroidectomy ranged from 72 to 90 minutes. Neither intra-nor post-operative complications were reported...

HYPOTHESIS Robotic-assisted transaxillary surgery (RATS) for the removal of thyroid glands is feasible by surgeons in the United States. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Academic research. Patient A 53-year-old woman. INTERVENTION Total thyroidectomy via the transaxillary approach. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Successful completion thyroidectomy using bilateral RATS. RESULTS Right thyroid lobectom...

OBJECTIVE To study the outcome and complications of thyroid surgery. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Three hundred and twelve patients (266 women and 46 men) underwent thyroid surgery between January 1994 and December 1999. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Complications of thyroidectomy for various thyroid diseases according to surgical technique used. ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of submitting children with thyroid cancer secondary to nuclear accidents to a completion total thyroidectomy. DESIGN A case series consisting of patients living and operated on in Belarus whose parents had asked for a clinical evaluation in a western European center. SETTING A tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS The conditions of 47 children from ...

BACKGROUND Total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy and gastric transposition (TPLEGT) for pharyngoesophageal (PE) tumors may require thyroidectomy (with or without removal of the parathyroid glands) to obtain adequate margins around the tumor. As a result, a considerable number of patients may have hypoparathyroidism (HP) develop. The objective of this article is to report our experience with differ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to investigate the surgical completeness of robotic total thyroidectomy compared with conventional open thyroidectomy. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, case-control study. METHODS We studied 245 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma who underwent total thyroidectomy and postoperative radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation. Of these, 62 patients unde...

BACKGROUND Total thyroidectomy is increasingly being adopted for patients requiring surgical treatment for Graves' disease based on a comparable surgical risk and the lack of recurrence, as well as the questionable ability of subtotal thyroidectomy to maintain euthyroidism. The purpose of the present paper was to evaluate its safety and efficiency. METHODS Total thyroidectomy was adopted as p...