Thyroid Surgery in Otorhinolaryngology

Introduction:

In the meanwhile dealing with the thyroid gland in respect to diagnostics and surgery by the ENT-specialist has become more widespread in Germany in the last years. We want to demonstrate our experience concerning this issue.

Material and Methods:

The prospective study at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Bad Hersfeld started in the year of 2014.

Results:

So far 415 patients were enrolled with an average age of 53 years (12 – 89). The sex ratio showed a significant preponderance of the female patients with 307 and 108 males. In 275 cases we didn't insert a Redon-drainage. The mean operation time was 126 minutes. The preoperative concentration of calcium was 2.44 mg/ml with a postoperative decrease to 2.25 mg/ml. The rate of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy was about 0.4% demonstrating a high safety for patients concerning this dreaded complication.

Conclusions:

Our results clearly show that even in an ENT-department thyroid surgery can be performed on a reasonable level and high safety for the patients.

However, besides the surgeon's expertise a close collaboration with the colleagues of nuclear medicine and the general practitioner respectively the endocrinologist is useful.

Publication History

Publication Date:
23 April 2019 (online)