Thyroid Diagnosis

Summary  The blood supply to the thyroid and related organs has been described. The possible complications following ligation and/or
dividing the inferior thyroid artery with the superior thyroid artery in thyroidectomy have been enumerated.

Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/BF02955380Authors
Patrick Fitzgerald, University College Department of Anatomy Cork

Journal Irish Journal of Medical ScienceOnline ISSN 1863-4362Print ISSN 0021-1265

Journal Volume Volume 2

Journal Issue Volume 2, Number 5 / May, 1969 (Source: Irish Journal of Medical Science)

A low thyroglobulin level cannot be used to avoid adjuvant 131I therapy after thyroidectomy for thyroid carcinoma
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Editorial commentaryDOI 10.1007/s00259-008-0963-2Authors

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Abstract
Background  Endemic goiter caused by iodine deficiency is still very common in sub-Saharan Africa and is a surgical challenge because
of the often large size of the goiters.

Methods  A retrospective analysis was made of patients who underwent operation for thyroid diseases during a surgical help program
in Leo/Burkina Faso during a 7-year period from 2001 to 2008.

Results  A total of 253 cases presented with goiters grade III (WHO classification) were operated on: 134 hemithyroidectomies, 108

Abstract  A fifty two year old female underwent attempted thyroidectomy for a progressively enlarging cervical swelling. At operation
the thyroid gland was extensively fibrosed and not resectable, frozen section showed fibrous replacement. The patient was
given a short course of postoperative corticosteroid therapy and was maintained on thyroid replacement therapy. Thirty months
later the patient remains asymptomatic.

Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/BF02967224Authors

Recurrent laryngeal nerve protection in thyroidectomy
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Surgical WorkshopDOI 10.1007/BF02967198Authors
D. S. O’Riordain, Cork University Hospital Departments of Surgery IrelandM. P. Brady, Cork University Hospital Departments of Surgery Ireland

Journal Irish Journal of Medical ScienceOnline ISSN 1863-4362Print ISSN 0021-1265

Journal Volume Volume 164

Journal Issue Volume 164, Number 4 / October, 1995 (Source: Irish Journal of Medical Science)

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Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis in patients with papillary thyroid carcinomas: evaluation and management of resulting vocal dysfunction.

Introduction: The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the feasibility and outcome of day case thyroidectomy in an ambulatory surgery centre in Hong Kong.Methods: Patients with day case thyroidectomy carried out between July 2005 and December 2006 were retrospectively reviewed. Day surgery was offered to patients satisfying the selection criteria for day case and having from benign unilobular thyroid disease.Results: Fifty patients had hemithyroidectomy carried out during the study period.

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the thyroid gland is a rare tumor first described by Rhatigan et al. in 1977. Its pathogenesis is still controversial. With regard to its most likely origin, some authors have suggested that it arises directly from follicular epithelium whereas others have proposed that it arises from ultimobranchial body (diverticulum from the fourth pharyngeal pouch) remnants, also known as solid cell nests (SCN). Herein is reported a unique case of thyroid mucoepidermoid carcinoma. The patient, a 67-year-old man, presented with a non-tender thyroid mass and vocal cord fixation.

Abstract
Background  Although mutations in the p53 suppressor gene in thyroid carcinoma have usually been detected in anaplastic carcinoma, P53 protein expression has been
detected immunohistochemically in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). In the present study, we examined the immunohistochemical
expression of P53 protein in PTC to investigate the relations between its expression and the clinicopathologic features.

Methods  The study was performed on 68 patients in whom thyroidectomy with lymph node dissection had been performed to treat PTC at