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HEMITHYROIDECTOMY
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INDEX

Introduction
Facts
Symptoms
Risk factors
Causes
Treatment
About Meddco
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Introduction

• Hemithyroidectomy is the removal of half of the
  thyroid gland. This test is performed to remove
  hazardous or cancerous lumps. This procedure,
  also referred to as a thyroid lobectomy or
  partial thyroidectomy, is performed to remove
  symptomatic or cancerous nodules.

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FACTS

• Unless indicated by your surgeon, you should be
  able to shower or bathe as usual.
• You may have a sore throat or a hoarse voice
  after surgery
• The parathyroid glands often recover their
  function within six to eight weeks. After total
  thyroidectomy about five to ten per cent may have
  permanent hypoparathyroidism and will need to
  take calcium and/or vitamin D for life

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SYMPTOMS

• You develop a fever. Your incision or any part of
  your neck becomes red, tender or swollen. Your
  voice seems to be hoarse, husky or weak. You
  develop symptoms of a low blood calcium level,
  such as numbness around your mouth, tingling in
  your extremities, or spasms in your feet, hands
  or face

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RISK FACTORS

• The reported risk of hypothyroidism after
  hemithyroidectomy shows considerable
  heterogeneity in literature.
• Bleeding.
• Infection.
• Low parathyroid hormone levels (hypoparathyroidism
  ) caused by surgical damage or removal of the
  parathyroid glands. These glands are located
  behind your thyroid and regulate blood calcium.
  Hypoparathyroidism can cause numbness, tingling
  or cramping due to low blood-calcium levels.
• Airway obstruction caused by bleeding.
• Permanent hoarse or weak voice due to nerve
  damage.

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CAUSES

• Cancer is the most common reason for
  thyroidectomy. If you have thyroid cancer,
  removing most, if not all, of your thyroid will
  likely be a treatment option. Noncancerous
  enlargement of the thyroid (goiter). This
  involves removing one lobe (or half) of the
  thyroid. A doctor may recommend this surgery if a
  nodule or low-risk thyroid cancer is limited to
  one side of the thyroid.

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TREATMENT

• A hemi-thyroidectomy or thyroid lobectomy where
  one lobe (one half) of the thyroid is removed.
  Hemithyroidectomy entails removal of the entire
  ipsilateral thyroid lobe and isthmus, with or
  without removal of central neck lymph nodes The
  procedure is typically performed for suspicious
  thyroid nodules or small differentiated thyroid
  cancers based on biopsy via fine needle
  aspiration (FNA) and occasionally for symptomatic
  benign thyroid nodules. At most institutions the
  operation can be completed safely in outpatient
  fashion with patient discharge from the hospital
  the same day.

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