Background: The normal thyroid gland is a fairly homogenous structure, but nodules often formed within its substance these nodule may be the growth and fusion of localized colloid – filled follicles, or discrete adenomas, or cyst. The terms adenomatous goiter, simple multi nodular goiter, non toxic nodular goiter, and colloid nodular goiter are used interchangeably as descriptive terms when a m...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the rate of complications and the risk factors in relation to the extent of surgery in patients undergoing thyroidectomy in a tertiary university center. DESIGN Data were collected retrospectively from 2,043 consecutive patients who underwent thyroid surgery for various thyroid diseases at the University Hospital of Patras, Greece, between January 1996 and December 2007....

EXTRACAPSULAR TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY IN THE BENIGN THYROID DISEASE (Abstract): The extracapsular total thyroidectomy is the surgical technique for the monobloc resection of the thyroid parenchyma, between the Charpy fascia and the thyroid gland’s own capsule with the preservation of the recurrent nerve, parathyroids, and the exterior branch of the superior laryngeal nerve. Even though this techniq...

UNLABELLED Goitre in the West African sub-region is caused by iodine deficiency and goitrogens in the diet. Supplementary iodine nutrition on a mass scale was started in Ghana in 1996. In areas where iodine deficiency have been corrected the histological pattern of goitre changes and this influences surgical decision making. Data on the histological types of goitre in our institution is lacking...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk factors influencing the recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma. METHODS This meta-analysis used MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE and CNKI including all cohort studies reporting the risk factors influencing the recurrence after the initial operation on PTC up to February 23, 2014. Software RevMan 5.2 was used for meta-analysis. RESULTS Thirteen studies with a total ...