ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019
Current Practice of Surgery for Benign Goitre-An Analysis of the Prospective DGAV StuDoQ|Thyroid Registry.
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- Safety and Efficacy of Thermal Ablation for Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of Available Evidence.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- 2023 European Thyroid Association Clinical Practice Guidelines for thyroid nodule management.European thyroid journal · 2023Guideline
- Italian Guidelines for the Management of Non-Functioning Benign and Locally Symptomatic Thyroid Nodules.Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2023Guideline
- A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing tumor progression and complications between radiofrequency ablation and thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of Preoperative Calcium and Magnesium Supplementation on Quality of Life and Hypocalcemia Post-Thyroidectomy.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2026Trial
- Short-Term Hypocalcemia Prophylaxis With Calcitriol Before Thyroidectomy.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2021Trial
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- Thermal Ablation as a Non-Surgical Alternative for Thyroid Nodules: A Review of Current Evidence.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Cost analysis and resource allocation in the management of benign thyroid nodules: a comparison of surgery and thermal ablation techniques.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2025Article
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- Risk Factors for Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy in Thyroid Surgery: A Single Center Experience of 1147 Procedures with Intermittent Intraoperative Neuromonitoring.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Current Knowledge on the Use of Neuromonitoring in Thyroid Surgery.Biomedicines · 2024Review
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- Proving the Superiority of Intraoperative Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring over Visualization Alone during Thyroidectomy.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Editorial: Thyroid nodule evaluation: current, evolving, and emerging tools.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- [Optimization of an integrated approach to voice correction for endocrinopathies (analytical review)].Problemy endokrinologii · 2022Review
- Intraoperative Neuromonitoring: Evaluating the Role of Continuous IONM and IONM Techniques for Emerging Surgical and Percutaneous Procedures.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundTo evaluate the current indications, resection strategies and short-term outcomes of surgery for benign goitre in a country with endemic goitre.
methodsData of patients who underwent surgery for benign goitre were retrieved from the prospective StuDoQ/Thyroid registry and retrospectively analysed regarding the patient's demographics, indications for surgery, surgical procedures, histology, and perioperative outcomes.
resultsIn a 15-month period, 12,888 patients from 83 departments underwent thyroid resections for benign conditions. Main indications for surgery were exclusion of malignancy (68%), compression symptoms (20.7%) and hyperthyroidism (9.7%). Preoperative fine needle aspiration cytology was performed in only 12.2% of patients with the indication "exclusion of malignancy". Thyroidectomy (49.8%) or hemithyroidectomy (36.9%) were performed in 86.7% of patients. Minimally invasive or alternative surgical techniques were applied in only 2.2%. Intraoperative neuromonitoring was used in 98.4% of procedures, in 97.5% of patients at least one parathyroid gland was visualized, and in 15.3% of patients parathyroid tissue was autografted, respectively. The rates of unilateral and bilateral transient recurrent nerve palsy were 3.6% and 0.07% of nerves at risk, the rate of transitory hypoparathyroidism was 15.3%. The rates of postoperative bleeding and wound infections requiring reoperation were 1.4% and 0.07%, respectively.
conclusionsThe indication "exclusion of malignancy" is made too liberally, and there is a strong attitude to perform complete thyroid resections. Postoperative hypoparathyroidism is the major complication after surgery for benign thyroid disease, thus requiring more awareness.
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