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- Juraj Lukinović and Mario Bilić.
- University Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Zagreb University Hospital Center.
- Acta Clin Croat. 2020 Jun 1; 59 (Suppl 1): 81-86.
IntroductionThe most obvious indication for thyroid surgery is malignancy, but other indications are also not rare. As with any other surgical procedure, those surgeries also carry risks which can be classified as minor or major.DiscussionIn this overview, we present minor (seroma, scarring) and major complications of thyroid surgery (recurrent nerve injury, hypoparathyroidism, and bleeding). We discuss the possibilities of prevention and treatment of each of those complications.ConclusionIn recent years, thyroid surgery is becoming safer due to the development of new surgical, hemostatic, and other techniques such as intraoperative monitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve and parathyroid gland detection.
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