Best Doctors for Thyroidectomy Treatment in Karimnagar

Thyroidectomy is a surgical procedure performed to remove all or part of the thyroid gland. It is advised to treat diseases like goiter, hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancers like papillary thyroid cancer, follicular thyroid cancer, medullary thyroid cancer, anaplastic thyroid cancer, primary thyroid lymphoma and metastasis to the thyroid from cancer elsewhere in the body. The main types of thyroidectomies are partial and total thyroidectomies. Partial thyroidectomy includes other types like hemi- thyroidectomy, isthmusectomy and open thyroid biopsy. The serious complications of this procedure are bleeding after surgery that can lead to acute respiratory distress, injury to the laryngeal nerve that can cause temporary or permanent hoarseness and damage to parathyroid glands. These complications are more likely if there an invasive tumor that has spread to nearby lymph nodes of neck, undergoing second thyroid surgery and in the presence of a substernal goiter.