Parathyroid autotransplantation in thyroid surgery
- Antonio Sitges-Serra, Leyre Lorente-Poch, Juan Sancho
- Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
- 2018
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Time to parathyroid function recovery in patients with protracted hypoparathyroidism after total thyroidectomy.
- Published 2018 in European journal of endocrinology
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
Hypocalcaemia is the most common adverse effect after total thyroidectomy. It recovers in about two-thirds of the patients within the first postoperative month. Little is known, however, about recovery of the parathyroid function (RPF) after this time period. The aim of the present study was to investigate the time to RPF in patients with… (More)