Indications for Thyroid Surgery

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Indications for Thyroid Surgery


Thyrotoxicosis

  • when quick and effective cure desirable
  • when anti-thyroid drugs unsatisfactory and radioiodine unsuitable
  • toxic multinodular goitre
  • toxic solitary nodules

Malignancy

Idiopathic Goitre

  • lump suspicious of malignancy
  • compressive retrosternal thyroid
  • solitary toxic nodule
  • toxic multinodular goitre
  • cosmetic deformity
 

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