Patients undergoing a total thyroidectomy are 34 percent less likely to experience complications if their surgeon performs at least 25 cases per year of this operation to remove the entire thyroid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults who undergo a total thyroidectomy due to cancer have an increased all-cause mortality risk. No increased ...

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’ ...

For patients with Hashimoto disease and persistent symptoms, total thyroidectomy is beneficial, offering long-lasting effects, according to a research letter published online Nov. 28 in the Annals of ...

Total thyroidectomy can be recommended for the treatment of benign bilateral thyroid disease, suggest Barczynski et al. The optimal extent of surgery for the treatment of bilateral benign thyroid ...

Most Americans with thyroid cancer have an operation to remove the thyroid gland, but those with a smaller, less-threatening form of thyroid cancer may be missing out on a less extensive, less costly, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers evaluated the incidence of physical, psychological, and lifestyle effects among patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Patients diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), ...

Retrospective results found considering conservative initial surgery options can reduce overtreatment for patients with thyroid cancer. Overtreatment may be reduced for patients with thyroid cancer by ...

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 ...

BOSTON — A new study from Japan lends support to the argument that most low-risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients don't need a total thyroidectomy and will do just as well with more ...