PMID: 9542027May 23, 1998Paper

Results of selective goiter resection in functional autonomy

Zentralblatt für Chirurgie
I ReichmannU Krause

Abstract

In the period from 1989 to 1994 a surgical treatment of toxic nodular goiter was performed in 145 patients. An unifocal autonomous adenoma occurred in 69 cases, a multifocal disease 76 times. The operative strategy consisted in a bilateral resection 105 times, and unilateral resection 29 times. An excision of a single node was carried out in ten cases. In one operation a hemithyroidectomy on one side and a subtotal resection of the other lobe was done. In May 1996 an interrogation about the current thyroid function was performed. In 105 (72.4%) patients a re-evaluation was possible. Concerning the postoperative therapy for prevention of recurrent hyperthyroidism or goiter growth, 84 patients (80%) had been treated with thyroxin and/or iodine. Under this therapy, after a mean period of 36 months 94 patients (89.5%) were clinically euthyroid. Nine patients (8.6%) were hypothyroid. Two patients developed a recurrent hyperthyroidism. Both of them belonged to the group of patients with multifocal autonomies, and both had been treated with thyroxin postoperatively. In one case, recurrent goiter growth occurred that did not need a therapeutic intervention. This patient as well had been treated for a multinodular goiter originally. She...Continue Reading

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