[Secondary resection in primarily omitted thyroidectomy as a prerequisite for multimodal therapy of differentiated...

From 1.1. 1970 to 31.12. 1982 62 patients underwent secondary thyroidectomy. In 28.3% primary thyroidectomy was omitted due to false negative frozen section. The rate of lesions of the recurrens nerve amounted to 4.8%, the percentage of hypoparathyroidism was 3.2%. The postoperative uptake of radioiodine was 19.4 +/- 16.8%. Uptake of radioiodine and the time interval between the first and second operation were correlated.