Thyroid Diagnosis

Abstract
Background  Total thyroidectomy is now accepted worldwide as the standard surgical procedure for the management of benign bilateral nodular
thyroid disease. Hypocalcemia is the most common complication of that procedure and a variety of strategies for diagnosing
and managing post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia have been advocated. Increasingly, the use of intact parathyroid hormone (PTH)
has been utilized to try to predict those patients at risk of developing post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia.

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