Complications of thyroid surgery: Prevention and management Journal Article
| Authors: | Iyer, N. G.; Shaha, A. R. |
| Article Title: | Complications of thyroid surgery: Prevention and management |
| Abstract: | The essentials of thyroid surgery include intimate knowledge of thyroid gland anatomy, sound understanding of thyroid pathology and meticulous technique. While mortality due to thyroid surgery is rare, complications can result in debilitating sequelae. Thyroid surgeons need to understand and anticipate situations when these may occur, and actively take steps to pre-vent them, as treatment of these complications is often difficult and frustrating. Surgeons also need to maintain an audit of their own com-plication rates and convey these to patients instead of quoting data from published litera-ture, which is biased towards high-volume spe-cialized units rather than "real world data". This review addresses the common complications that occur during thyroid surgery and the issues therein. |
| Keywords: | review; postoperative complication; postoperative complications; thyroidectomy; thyroid neoplasms; thyroid gland; injury; recurrent laryngeal nerve; intraoperative complications; parathyroid gland; parathyroid glands; thyroid diseases, surgery; ambulatory surgery; laryngeal nerve; peroperative complication; ambulatory surgical procedures; laryngeal nerves |
| Journal Title: | Minerva Chirurgica |
| Volume: | 65 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 0026-4733 |
| Publisher: | Edizioni Minerva Medica |
| Date Published: | 2010-02-01 |
| Start Page: | 71 |
| End Page: | 82 |
| Language: | English |
| PUBMED: | 20212419 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | --- - "Export Date: 20 April 2011" - "CODEN: MICHA" - "Source: Scopus" |
