DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Hemithyroidectomy
Thyroidectomy
A thyroidectomy is an operation that involves the surgical removal of all or part of the thyroid gland. Surgeons often perform a thyroidectomy when a patient has thyroid cancer or some other condition of the thyroid gland. Other indications for surgery include cosmetic (very enlarged thyroid), or symptomatic obstruction (causing difficulties in swallowing or breathing). One of the complications of "thyroidectomy" is voice change and patients are strongly advised to only be operated on by surgeons who protect the voice by using electronic nerve monitoring...
Hemithyroidectomy - List of case studies
- Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid with Multiple and Diffuse Nodular Secondarisms of the Pulmonary Parenchyma
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with multiple biopsies of laryngeal neoformation, right hemithyroidectomy with laterocervical homolateral dissection and subisthmic ... Dec 2002 Surgery for total laryngectomy with left hemithyroidectomy and ligature of the common carotid, right internal and ...
- Incidental Finding of Thyroid Gland Nodule
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of surgery is dictated by the histology as well : a hemithyroidectomy is reasonable if the needle biopsy was not diagnostic of ... is needed if the diagnosis of cancer was established. A hemithyroidectomy is reasonable if the biopsy could not rule out cancer but was ...
- Multinodular goiter with thyroid lobe cysts
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associated with dyspnea. She has been asked to consider hemithyroidectomy, total thyroidectomy or Eutirox (levothyrxine) ... these specialists have different views. Some advise a hemithyroidectomy, some a total thyroidectomy, others advise removing the ... hemi-thyroidectomy. My feeling is that right hemithyroidectomy is more appropriate for the following reasons: It will ...
- Treatments
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Head & Neck surgery Heavy immunosuppression Hemithyroidectomy Hemithyroidectomy (right) Hemodialysis Hemodynamic and breathing ...