Blanket routine calcium supplementation after thyroidectomy was no more effective than selective, parathyroid hormone (PTH)-guided therapy for preventing hypocalcemia in a randomized trial. The ...

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 . Changes in thyrotropin-binding inhibitory immunoglobulin levels for people with refractory Graves’ disease ...

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 ...

Out of over 126,000 adult patients who underwent total thyroidectomy, nearly 20% had hypocalcemia during the first 30 days following surgery -- defined as a diagnosis of hypocalcemia or ...

After a total thyroidectomy, patients have a higher risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially those having hypoparathyroidism. The risk for CKD 10 years after total thyroidectomy was 13.5% (95 ...

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 ...

Patients with intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer and lymph node metastasis show no significant increase in tumor recurrence when undergoing lobectomy compared with a total thyroidectomy, new ...

A new combination therapy using recombinant human adenovirus p53 injection (rAd-p53) to manage advanced thyroid cancer. Outcomes and prognostic factors of localized, resected malignant salivary gland ...

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 ...

Supportive therapy with nucleic acid-based immune drugs in patients with maxillary cancer during postoperative period. Phase I dose-finding and pharmacokinetic study of IV vinflunine in combination ...

A 68-year-old woman with recent history of papillary thyroid cancer (Figure 1) underwent bilateral neck dissection and total thyroidectomy 3 months previously. Due to concern for residual cancer, she ...