Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Helps In Removing Thyroid Cysts
In a path-breaking surgery here, an elderly woman suffering from multiple nodules and cysts in her thyroid gland was relieved of the diseased parts without any trauma on the neck//. A team of surgeons led by B. Ramana performed the two-hour-long operation - Bloodless Endoscopic Thyroidectomy ...Early detection critical in treating pediatric thyroid cancer
...ue of the journal Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. The study, authored by Italian researchers, evaluated 2,709 patients who underwent a total thyroidectomy to treat papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Among the groups pediatric patients (younger than 18 years old), the cancer was observed to be much more ...National Cancer Database Reveals Disparities in Access to Thyroid Cancer Surgery
...(NCDB), the removal of the entire thyroid -- total thyroidectomy -- was shown to reduce papillary thyroid cancer r... Patients were less likely to undergo a total thyroidectomy if they were African-American, older than 45 years...erations, were also more likely to receive a total thyroidectomy than patients treated at low-volume or community h...