[Prognosis in the surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter]

Reduction of the incidence of postoperative hyperthyroidism (POH) is one of the urgent problems of DTG surgery. According to Soviet authors, it reaches 48%. The authors take into account a complex consisting of the patient's age, the degree of thyrotoxicosis, and the results of emergency (intraoperative) histological study. A program was elaborated with due consideration for adequate preoperative examination, preparation of the patients for the operation, a standardized method with reliable determination of the mass of the thyroid residue, morphometric examination of the removed part of the thyroid, study of the late-term results and their comparison with the preoperative clinical picture. Intraoperative determination of the percentage of active zones and the presence of intrafollicular epithelium and lymphoid infiltration made it possible for the authors to reduce POH incidence from 43.5% to 2.8%.