Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Kamran Chaudhary, Farooq Ahmed, Aslam Javed.
Frequency of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in subtotal thyroidectomy in benign diseases of thyroid.
J Allama Iqbal Med Coll May ;19(4):917-9.

Background: To evaluate the frequency of recurrent laryngeal nerve damage in subtotal thyroidectomy versus total thyroidectomy in benign diseases of thyroid. Methods: Methods: This comparative study was conducted at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore Patients date comprised from September 2017 to September 2021 who underwear subtotal or total thyroidectomy. A self-generated proforma was used to documents per operative findings and post-operative complications. The visits for follow up were also highlighted at the discharge cards. Patients who could not come for follow-up were inter nerved on phone. Date was analysed using SPSS 20. Results: Of the 94 patients 78 ( 82.97%) were females and 16 (17%) were males. 47 patients under went subtotal thyroidectomy under went total thyroidectomy all the patients had benign disease of thyroid contirmed by Pre-operative FNAC. Recurrent laryngeal nerve unilateral in 2 patients 2.12%) and 1 (1.06%) in bilateral recurrent nerve injury were seen in subtotal thyroidectomy. Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury was seen in 4 (4.25 %) as unilateral and (2.1%) seen as bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve injury when total thyroidectomy was opted (these injury were permanent. Conclusion: Simple multinodular was sufficiently cured with total thyroidectomy although recurrent laryngeal nerve injury incidence was higher in this technique as compared to subtotal thyroidectomy. Keywords: total /subtotal thyroidectomy recurrent laryngeal nerve.

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