Thyroidectomy
Thyroidectomy
What is it:

A thyroidectomy is the surgical removal of a damaged thyroid gland. Thyroid gland is found within the front of your neck, below your voice box. It consists of 2 lobes, one on all sides of your windpipe. Thyroid gland plays a crucial role in control your body's metabolism and metal balance. Different procedure for thyroidectomy includes: Lobectomy or partial lobectomy removes one lobe or solely some of your thyroid gland. Lumpectomy removes solely a little portion of your thyroid gland. Sub-total thyroidectomy removes most of your thyroid gland, forsaking a small amount of thyroid tissue. Total thyroidectomy removes all thyroid tissue

Before the operation:
  • About one week before surgery, you'll be told to prevent taking pain pill and different blood-thinning medications
  • To scale back the chance of ejection throughout surgery, you'll be told to not eat or drink after midnight before the operation
  • You may get to have tests that show specifically wherever the abnormal thyroid growth is found. This may facilitate the doctor to realize the expansion throughout surgery. You'll have a CT scan, ultrasound, or different imaging tests
  • Your doctor can also do a fine needle aspiration to seek out if the expansion is noncancerous or cancerous. Before surgery, your vocal cord is also checked. You may additionally want thyroid drugs or iodine treatments one to a pair of weeks before your surgery
  • If you smoke, attempt to stop. Your recovery time are going to be shorter if you are doing not smoke. raise your doctor or nurse for facilitate
  • Talk to your doctor regarding any issues you've got relating to the requirement for this operation, its risks, how it'll be done or what the results can mean
The operation:
  • Doctor will give you general anesthesia so that you will be asleep during the procedure and you will not feel any pain during the procedure
  • Conventional thyroidectomy : In this thyroidectomy, a 3- to 4-inch incision is created through the skin within the low collar space of your neck. Next, a vertical cut are created through the strap-like muscles situated slightly below the skin, and these muscles are unfold aside to reveal the thyroid gland and alternative deeper structures
  • Then, all or a part of your thyroid gland are cut free from close tissues and removed. When your thyroid gland is removed, one or 2 stitches are accustomed bring your neck muscles along once more. Then the deeper layer of your incision are closed with stitches and your skin are closed with sterile paper tapes
  • A little suction tube is inserted close to the realm of your incision to empty any blood accumulated within your neck. Most patients get back one or 2 days when the surgery is done
  • Endoscopic thyroidectomy : An instrument known as an endoscope is inserted into your neck through 3 or four small incisions. Every incision is regarding three millimeters to five millimeters long
  • Then the doctor can use a small camera attached with endoscope to guide the instruments and take away your thyroid tissue. After completing the procedure, your neck incisions are closed with small stitches
After the operation:
  • After the operation, you will expertise neck pain and a husky or weak voice. This does not essentially mean there is permanent harm to the nerve that controls your vocal cords
  • You'll be able to eat and drink as was common once surgery is done. The majority who have thyroidectomies stay within the hospital for concerning twenty four hours
  • After thyroid surgery, you will want periodic blood tests to measure your endocrine levels. Metal and phosphorus levels are checked to gauge the operation of your ductless gland glands that generally are broken throughout thyroid surgery
  • If all of your endocrine was removed, you'll expect to require thyroid supplements for the remainder of your life. You will have a lot of pain once surgery is done if you had a traditional thyroidectomy than if you had an endoscopic thyroidectomy
Possible complications:
  • Complications may include airways obstruction, bleeding under neck incision, hyperparathyroidism, damage to the parathyroid gland, infection or neck swells