[Surgery of thyroid pathologies in one-day surgery]

Ann Ital Chir. 2002 Sep-Oct;73(5):501-3; discussion 503-4.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The surgery of the thyroid pathologies in Day and/or One-Day-Surgery requires a thorough choice former of the surgery of the patients and the availability of the team specialist that could guarantee an adequate nursing after surgery. The authors describe the advantages and the limits of the short confined to stay in hospital for the surgery of the thyroid pathologies. The selection criteria for patients undergoing thyroidectomy in One-Day-Surgery have been: euthyroid patients with benign pathologies concentrate only thyroid lobe and lack of associated pathologies as cardiopathy, broncopathy, nephropathy, hepatopaty, diabetes, etc. Were executed in general anaesthesia forty lobectomies for uninodular thyroid disease and three enucleoresections for a nodule of pyramidal lobe, and only two cases the histological definitive diagnosis of carcinoma has caused a second hospital stay. In all forty-three cases was used a drainage, removed after 24 hours.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Ambulatory Surgical Procedures*
  • Drainage
  • Humans
  • Patient Selection
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Risk Factors
  • Thyroid Diseases / surgery*
  • Thyroidectomy*