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Published on: August 17, 2022
Risk factors for incidental parathyroidectomy during thyroidectomy
Niklas Söderberg Campos1, Lívia Petrone Cardoso, Ricardo Tirapelli Tanios
1Medical School of the Metropolitan University of Santos-UNIMES, Santos/SP, Brazil.
Unlabelled:
Incidental parathyroidectomy is a common event in thyroid surgery. The literature shows a finding of parathyroid glands ranging from 6.4% to 31% in pathological specimens of the thyroid gland.
Objective:
To collect the amount of parathyroid glands found in surgical specimens of thyroidectomy and correlate with the histopathological and demographic variables.
Methods:
Retrospective study based on pathological reports of thyroidectomy from January 2007 to December 2008.
Results:
442 patients were submitted to total thyroidectomy, and 2.93% had parathyroid glands, which corresponded to 13 of this total. The presence of papillary thyroid carcinoma associated with incidental parathyroidectomy was 10.11%, compared to the benign lesion: 1.4%.
Conclusion:
Papillary thyroid carcinoma was the variable associated with increased number of incidental parathyroidectomy.
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