Postoperative Considerations/Complications
Complication Incidence Reference(s) Hypocalcemia (HBS) Primary 5–100 % (0–75 %) [7, 13–33] Secondary 80–100 % (27–95 %) [24, 38–42] RLN injury Initial 0.1–1.5 % [8, 28, 29] Reoperation 2.3–6 %…
Spear Pemberton
Hugh Spear Pemberton [2]. (By courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library) Hugh Spear Pemberton was born on June 3, 1890, in Liverpool, England, the youngest son of Thomas Shepherd…
Bertram Collip
J. B. Collip as Dean of Medicine, in his office at the University of Western Ontario, ca 1950s. (Photo used with permission from Western University, Western Archives, History of Medicine…
Physiology
Fig. 1 Histological section of normal thyroid, magnified 20 ×. Each colloid-filled follicle is surrounded by a single layer of thyroid follicular cells Thyroid Hormone Synthesis The thyroid gland produces…
Thyroid Carcinoma
Phenotype Exon Codon ATA risk Sporadic MTC 13 768 A – 16 918 D – – – – FMTC 11 630 B – – 631 B – – 634 B…
Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen. (Reprinted with permission from Modarari et al. [12]. Courtesy of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England) Evolution of a Scientist Richard Owen was…
Thyroid Cancer: Papillary, Follicular, and Oncocytic (Hürthle) Cell Cancer
Familial adenomatosis polyposis PTEN hamartoma tumor (Cowden’s) Carney complex type 1 Pathognomonic criteria > 100 colorectal adenomatous polyps Mucocutaneous lesions and cerebellar tumors Pigmented skin lesions, i.e., lentigines, cutaneous,…