BACKGROUND Combined open-heart surgery and thyroidectomy is a rare procedure. However, some difficulties will occur for cardiac surgery when thyromegaly extends into the retrosternal space. CASE DETAILS A 54-year-old woman suffering from dyspnea, chest pain and decreased left ventricular function (EF=40%) was diagnosed with coronary artery disease (3 vessel disease) and became candidate for c...

Factors responsible for major complications following thyroid surgery in 598 patients were studied. Patients with non toxic multinodular goiter involving both lobes of thyroid constituted the maximum bulk subjected to thyroidectomy. The most frequent procedure was bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy. Reactionary hemorrhage occurred in 6 patients, all following bilateral procedures and among them 5...

Developed for scarless neck surgery and conceived as a modification of the axillo-bilateral breast approach, bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) is method extracervical endoscopic thyroidectomy that currently one most popular techniques in world. Since da Vinci robotic system was used to overcome many technical disadvantages BABA thyroidectomy, indications thyroidectomy(BABA-RT) could be la...

BACKGROUND Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) proved to be safe and effective in the treatment of both benign diseases and malignancies. We report our experience in thyroid surgery in pediatric patients. METHODS From October 1998 to December 2005, 35 patients (27 females and 8 males) underwent MIVAT for thyroid disease. The mean age was 14.0 years (range, 8-18 years); mea...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine feasibility, safety, and cost savings of outpatient thyroid and parathyroid surgery. METHODS Consecutive unselected patients undergoing thyroid and parathyroid operations by two surgeons with a special interest in endocrine surgery were studied prospectively. RESULTS One-hundred patients underwent operation, 61 as outpatients and 39 as i...

HYPOTHESIS Current techniques for open conventional thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy have evolved to enable a shorter incision (main proposition), and the length of the incision is influenced by objective factors. DESIGN Case series. SETTING University referral center. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTION Retrospective study of the most recent 200 primary consecutive routine thyroid and parathyroi...

BACKGROUND The role of total thyroidectomy in the treatment of patients with benign thyroid disease remains controversial. However, this procedure may be appropriate when both thyroid lobes are involved and when the risk of recurrence is significant. This study is a review of a 15-year experience of total thyroidectomy for benign disease. METHODS Between 1988 and 2002, 834 patients underwent ...

Failure of a primary operation to control renal hyperparathyroidism is usually due to inadequate resection of hyperplastic tissue or previous undetected ectopic parathyroid gland. We describe a patient with recurrent renal hyperparathyroidism, who presented with a subcutaneous neck nodule. A 49-year-old woman had a history of systemic lupus erythematosus, papillary thyroid carcinoma, and end-st...

INTRODUCTION Thyroidectomy is among the most commonly performed procedures involving the endocrine glands and the development of advanced surgical methods combined with a strife for performing the operation in a manner that is minimally invasive for the patient has considerably increased the need for instruments that would limit surgical trauma. AIM To compare of the outcomes of total thyroid...