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Prevention of hypocalcemia in children due to parathyroid infarction after thyroidectomy
Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
A high incidence of hypercalcemia was found in children after subtotal thyroidectomy for thyrotoxicosis in 17 patients. The most common cause of post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia was not glandular extirpation but, seemingly, infarction due to devascularization. This complication has been eliminated by a change in the operation technique.