Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Distinct Forms of Thyroid Surgical Procedure

By Gabriel M. Frein


You would require a thyroid surgery because of thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, and hyperthyroidism. Common aspect by these medical conditions is that all of them stop the thyroid gland from creating and keeping hormones that are important for the proper functioning of the human body. Thyroid hormones are supposed to cause maintaining the rate of the heart in order, as well as body temperature, blood pressure, and ensuring that the food you take in is properly transformed into energy. When those functions turn into adversely affected it's normally a sign of thyroid issues and that may lead your doctor to suggest one of 3 different types of thyroid surgery.

Total thyroidectomy - this is usually performed when the nodules all around the gland end up puffy to the point where it becomes hard for the patient to swallow. The full thyroid gland, and also lymph nodes, is entirely taken off with this treatment.

Thyroid Lobectomy - the thyroid gland is a butterfly shaped gland positioned at the front end of the neck, on contrary sides of the trachea. Only if one of the lobes has thyroid nodules, then the thyroid surgery will remove that side only. The operation also can have an isthmectomy, meaning removing the band of tissue which connects the 2 lobes. The eliminated parts will likely be checked for signs of cancer, and if they're present, a thyroidectomy will then be done.

Subtotal thyroidectomy - perhaps the least popular thyroid surgery of the 3, since it is used in the remedy for hyperthyroidism, which rarely requires surgery; the one exception is when the hyperthyroidism is caused by Grave's illness.

Here is what you need to know concerning the thyroid surgery recovery process. The thyroid gland doesn't seem to warrant as much problem as many of the main organs in the human body, but it surely plays an integral part in our development.




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