July 25, 2012 — Subtotal thyroidectomy can be a cost-effective treatment for Graves disease (GD), according to a new cost analysis of various treatment options. However, that assumes a 49.5% initial ...

Total thyroidectomy can be recommended for the treatment of benign bilateral thyroid disease, suggest Barczynski et al. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The ...

Surgery for hyperthyroidism is uncommon. At this center, only about 7% of the 4139 patients referred for thyroid surgery had hyperthyroidism. In this randomized trial, which spanned a 5-year period, ...

The thyroid is a small gland shaped like a butterfly. It’s located in the lower front part of the neck, just below the voice box. The thyroid produces hormones that the blood carries to every tissue ...

From the Thyroid Clinic and Metabolism Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Lerman — Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School. For record and address of author see "This Week's ...

A 75-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease who is on chronic hemodialysis has a suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) of 0.1 µU/mL and levels of free thyroxine (T4) and free ...