Background: Chylothorax is an extremely rare but potentially life-threatening complication after radical neck dissection. We report the case of a bilateral chylothorax after total thyroidectomy and cervico-central and cervico-lateral lymphadenectomy for thyroid carcinoma. Case presentation: A 40-year-old European woman underwent total thyroidectomy and neck dissection for papillary thyroid carc...

BACKGROUND Early in the 20th century, thyroid surgery was performed using local anesthetic techniques. When general anesthesia became safer, surgeons started performing thyroidectomy exclusively under general anesthesia. However, recent descriptions of thyroidectomy under local anesthesia claim similar results to thyroidectomy under general anesthesia. Surgery conducted under local anesthesia c...

BACKGROUND Horner's syndrome is a very rare complication following surgery of the thyroid gland with only a handful of cases reported in the literature. Exact pathophysiology of post-thyroidectomy Horner's syndrome is not fully understood, and once diagnosed, management remains mostly conservative. CASE PRESENTATION A 36-year-old Sri Lankan Sinhalese woman developed unilateral partial ptosis ...

Background Thyroidectomy in horses is performed conventionally; however, both iatrogenic and post-operative complications occur, mostly due to injury of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). Objective To facilitate sufficient understanding use Harmonic Focus® Shear (HFS) together with intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) RLN during thyroidectomy horses. Study design Retrospective case series. M...