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Careful Examination of Thyroid Specimen Intraoperatively to Reduce Incidence of Inadvertent Parathyroidectomy During Thyroid Surgery

Bassam Abboud, MD; Ghassan Sleilaty, MD; Carla Braidy, MD; Salam Zeineddine, MD; Claude Ghorra, MD; Gerard Abadjian, MD; Bassam Tabchy, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(11):1105-1110.

Objective  To assess the incidence and clinical relevance of inadvertent parathyroidectomy during thyroidectomy, and the possibility of reducing its occurrence.

Design  Retrospective study.

Setting  University hospital.

Patients  Consecutive patients who underwent thyroidectomy from 1999 to 2005, divided into 2 groups (group 1, those with inadvertent parathyroidectomy; and group 2, those without inadvertent parathyroidectomy). Patients who underwent surgical procedures for recurrent thyroid disease, intentional parathyroidectomy, and resection of central compartment viscera were excluded.

Interventions  All pathology reports were reviewed for the presence of any parathyroid tissue in the resected specimen. Age, sex, preoperative diagnosis, thyroid hormonal status, substernal thyroid extension, number of parathyroid glands identified and spared at the time of surgery, autotransplantation of parathyroid gland, and final histologic findings were recorded.

Main Outcome Measures  Identification of parathyroid tissue in resected specimens and postoperative symptomatic hypocalcemia.

Results  A total of 307 patients were included. Surgical procedures included bilateral or unilateral thyroidectomy (95% and 5% of procedures, respectively). Central neck lymph node dissection was performed in 5% of cases. Pathologic findings showed inadvertent parathyroidectomy in 12% of cases. Of these, 32% were recognized intraoperatively. The parathyroid tissue was found in extracapsular locations in 37% of cases, intracapsular locations in 39%, and intrathyroidal locations in 24%. There was no statistical difference between the 2 groups in terms of sex, preoperative diagnosis, substernal extension, extent of surgery, pathologic diagnosis, and occurrence of postoperative hypocalcemia, except for the presence of thyroiditis.

Conclusion  Careful examination of the surgical specimen intraoperatively decreases the incidence of inadvertent parathyroidectomy during thyroidectomy.


Author Affiliations: Departments of General Surgery (Drs Abboud, Sleilaty, Braidy, and Zeineddine), Pathology (Drs Ghorra and Abadjian), and Otorhinolaryngology (Dr Tabchy), Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon.



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Can we Avoid Inadvertent Parathyroidectomy during Thyroid Surgery?
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