Thyroid surgery
Thyroid surgery is the collective term for the surgical treatment procedures for diseases of the thyroid gland .
These are the following interventions:
- Goiter resection : the partial removal of the enlarged thyroid gland ( goiter ); is often incorrectly referred to as a strumectomy (→ ectomy ).
- Thyroidectomy : the complete removal of the thyroid gland (e.g. in thyroid cancer )
- Hemithyroidectomy : the complete removal of the right or left lobe of the thyroid
- Dunhill operation : goiter resection of onethyroid lobe , hemithyroidectomy of the other
- Enucleation : The peeling of a lump from the thyroid gland while leaving the healthy tissue
Many different thyroid disorders are treated with these procedures:
- Goiter with normal function ( euthyroid goiter), with overactive ( hyperthyroidism ) and with underactive ( hypothyroidism )
- Graves disease
- Autonomous adenoma
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- subacute thyroiditis
- De Quervain's thyroiditis
- Riedel's goiter
- Thyroid cancer
Around 110,000 thyroid operations are performed in Germany every year. Thyroid operations are in third place in the national operation statistics. Statistically, there is one operation per 750 inhabitants per year, while in Great Britain there is one operation per 4,900 inhabitants and in the USA only one operation per 6,000 inhabitants.
supporting documents
- ↑ J. Feldkamp. Care of thyroid patients in Germany. In: H. Dralle (Hrsg.) Thyroid 2009. Quality standards in thyroid medicine. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86541-386-4 .
