Parathyroid function following ligation of the inferior thyroid arteries during bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy

✍ Scribed by E. Gemsenjäger

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 104 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800820763

✦ Synopsis

we would be interested to know if the Leicester group have done so. Finally, we would firmly agree with the authors that these patients should be re-entered into the graft surveillance programme after each intervention, as a high proportion will develop further problems. In our series, 20 per cent of patients required a second intervention and six grafts occluded before the follow-up surveillance appointment.