Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

AN EXPERIENCE WITH THYROID SURGERY IN CENTRAL INDIA

Nikhil Mehta, Zeeshanuddin Ahmad, Amar Jain, Sanjay M. Desai

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Background: Thyroid disorders are one of the most common encountered disease in the hospital. This study was carried out to evaluate the histologic spectrum of surgically treated thyroid disease in Sri Aurobindo Instititute Of Medical Sciences, Indore.

Methods: This study was conducted in Department of Surgical Oncology, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences and included those patients who underwent thyroid surgery for both benign and malignant diseases from year 2015 to 2018.

Results: A total of 35 patients were enrolled out of which 31 were females and 4 were males with sex ratio of 7.75:1. The age range was from 22–86 years. Malignancv was found in 57% of patients where as 43% were benign. Papillary carcinoma was the commonest malignancy where as nodular goiter was commonest benign lesion. Total thyroidectomy was the predominant surgery in 80% of patients. Hypocalcemia was the commonest postoperative complication accounting to 11% .

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AN EXPERIENCE WITH THYROID SURGERY IN CENTRAL INDIA , Nikhil Mehta, Zeeshanuddin Ahmad, Amar Jain, Sanjay M. Desai , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-11| November-2018

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