Liaqat Ali Deokah, Usman Habibvirk, Muhammad Azhar Hassan, Javaid Sajjad Hashmi, Samina Rashid, Neelma Asghar.
Early post-operative complications after thyroidectomy for benign goiters.
J Allama Iqbal Med Coll Jan ;19(4):988-90.

Objective: To find frequency of early complications after thyroid surgery for benign thyroid conditions. Methods: Early complications after thyroid surgery for benign thyroid conditions were studied. One hundred patients with FNAC confirmed benign goiter admitted for elective thyroidectomies were included in the study. Data was collected in the pre-designed proforma. Descriptive statistics was used to calculate frequency of each complication in the early post-thyroidectomy period. Results: The frequency of complications after thyroidectomy was 27%. Out of them 8% developed subcutaneous haematoma,5patients(5%)wound infection ,4% tension haematoma, 4 patients (4%) hypocalcaemia, 3 patients(3%) respiratory obstruction and 3 patients (3%) developed recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. Conclusion: Surgery for benign thyroid enlargement but may be associated with significant numbers of post-operative complications including wound haematoma, wound infection and hypocalcemia.

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