TY  - JOUR
T1  - Invited critique: Total thyroidectomy for bilateral benign multinodular goiter
AU  - Grant CS
Y1  - 1999/12/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.134.12.1393
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 1393
EP  - 1393
VL  - 134
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Delbridge and his colleagues should be complimented on a large series of patients who underwent both subtotal and total thyroidectomy with incredibly low complication rates. Although nearly one third of their patients required 3 to 6 weeks of calcium supplementation, fewer than 0.5% developed permanent hypoparathyroidism. They attribute this extraordinary record in part to routine autotransplantation of 1 parathyroid gland at the time of total thyroidectomy. While we employ liberal use of parathyroid autotransplantation in similar circumstances, a single autotransplanted gland as the only protection for hypoparathyroidism seems optimistic.

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.134.12.1393
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.134.12.1393
ER  -