Long-term Follow-up of Surgically Treated Thyrotoxic Patients

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Review of 123 patients whose thyroidectomy for thyrotoxicosis had been performed more than five years previously showed that there were no deaths attributable to surgery, while one Lundred patients (81.3%) had been rendered euthyroid. Varying degrees of hyperthyroidism had occurred in 15 (12.2%), and six of these were first diagnosed at follow-up. Hypothyroidism was present in eight (6.5%). Long-term complications of operation were found in 20 patientssubjective voice disturbance in 13, unsightly scars in 4, and hypoparathyroidism in 3. © 1968, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

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McNeill, A. D., & Thomson, J. A. (1968). Long-term Follow-up of Surgically Treated Thyrotoxic Patients. British Medical Journal, 3(5619), 643–646. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.3.5619.643

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