Surgical significance of non-toxic iodine-avid goitre

✍ Scribed by M. Kalra; Professor S. K. Khanna

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 365 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800760425

✦ Synopsis

During the period 1970-87, of 1580 patients operated on for non-toxic nodular goitre, 17 satisfied the laboratory criteria for iodine avidity. All of these goitres were non-endemic, with no evidence of enzymatic deficiency. Preoperative thyroxine markedly reduced the surgical morbidity by decreasing the size and vascularity of the gland.