[Personal experience with thyroid gland surgery and surgical complications]

The authors from a department with numerous thyroid gland operations present their experience and operative complications. In this department, routine dissection of the recurrent laryngeal nerve is not performed, a method of a strietly subcapsular dissection of the gland with thorough preoperative haemostasis is used. Dissection of the nerve is performed only in necessary cases. Nevertheless, the operative complications do not differ from those of other departments with a similar field of interest. Emphasis is put especially on careful dissection and the surgeon's experience.