Thyroidectomy Definition

Thyroidectomy Sentence Examples

• Sometimes half of the gland has to be removed (thyroid lobectomy) or the whole gland can be removed (total thyroidectomy ).

• A 10-year retrospective study of patients who underwent initial thyroidectomy for PTC from 1986 to 1996 was completed.

• Low calcium happens in about 3 out of 10 people who have a thyroidectomy.

• Grave's disease is widely treated, where medical methods are deemed unsatisfactory, by partial thyroidectomy, or Radioactive Iodine ablation.

• I then had to have total retrosturnal thyroidectomy in December 1998 during which three of my parathyroid glands were also removed.