ArticleWorld journal of surgery2014
Thyroid surgery without antibiotic prophylaxis: experiences with 1,030 patients from a teaching hospital in China.
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- Antimicrobial prophylaxis for the prevention of surgical site infection after thyroid and parathyroid surgery: a prospective randomized trial.World journal of surgery · 2015Trial
- Comprehensive analysis of learning curve and surgical outcomes of endoscopic thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma: a prospective study.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026Article
- Incidence of Surgical Site Infections after Transcervical Thyroidectomy in Patients Given Antibiotics versus those without Antibiotics in a Government Hospital in the Philippines.Acta medica Philippina · 2024Article
- Is Prophylactic Antibiotic Therapy Needed in Thyroidectomy?Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022Article
- Effect of Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Surgical Site Infection in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A Nested Case-Control Study on the Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Thyroid Surgery.World journal of surgery · 2018Article
- Antibiotic prophylaxis in thyroid surgery.Gland surgery · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveOur objective was to evaluate the outcome of thyroidectomy without the use of prophylactic antibiotics. This study was held from January 2005 to May 2012 in a teaching hospital in Dongguan, China.
methodsA total of 1,030 thyroidectomy patients were retrospectively reviewed and basic data were recorded, including age, sex, peri-operative antibiotic use, type of thyroid surgery done, and post-operative complications. Either an open approach or an endoscopic approach was performed according to the doctor's or patient's preference following a strict aseptic technique. The drain was routinely placed. Any complications were analyzed.
resultsA total of 834 (81 %) females and 196 (19 %) males were included, giving a ratio of 4.2:1. The average age was 38.3 years. The mean operation time was 85.3 min. Pathological type included 818 (79.4 %) nodular goiter, 34 (3.3 %) Graves' disease, 102 (9.9 %) nodular papillary hyperplasia, 12 (1.2 %) Hashimoto's disease, 62 (6 %) papillary carcinoma, and 2 (0.2 %) medullary carcinoma. Four patients had postoperative bleeding, four had temporally recurrent nerve paralysis. Only one had wound infection (0.09 %).
conclusionAntibiotic prophylaxis in elective thyroidectomy is not an essential pre-operation preparation for all patients, if guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis in clean surgery are adhered to and surgeons have sophisticated skills in the procedure.
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