To determine whether the extent of surgery affects outcome and to identify a tumor size threshold associated with improved outcomes. This was a retrospective study of patients identified from the ...

People with hyperthyroidism did not seem to have worse thyroidectomy outcomes than those with normal thyroid functioning, researchers in France reported. In a nonrandomized study of adults with ...

Surgery for hyperthyroidism is uncommon. At this center, only about 7% of the 4139 patients referred for thyroid surgery had hyperthyroidism. In this randomized trial, which spanned a 5-year period, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Operative management with total thyroidectomy will not be the best option for all older adults with Graves’ ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Total or completion thyroidectomy during or after a lobectomy may be necessary for half of adults with low-risk ...

Progressive locally advanced or metastatic radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RAI-R DTC) patients treated with donafenib: A real world study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

Total thyroidectomy may be a treatment option for patients with confirmed Hashimoto's disease who experience persistent symptoms despite adequate thyroid hormone replacement, novel research suggests.

Just one preoperative dose of dexamethasone proved of benefit for thyroidectomy patients, according to a randomized clinical trial in Pakistan. In a study of 192 patients, those who received ...

Recovery from a full or partial thyroidectomy is typically light and lasts for a few weeks. Your surgical team will advise you on pain medications, foods to eat during recovery, and more. A ...

A 75-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease who is on chronic hemodialysis has a suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) of 0.1 µU/mL and levels of free thyroxine (T4) and free ...

Although consensus guidelines recommend total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) ≥1 cm, it remains unclear whether this procedure confers a survival advantage. This was a retrospective ...