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- Title
Evidence for the role of perioperative PTH measurement after total thyroidectomy as a predictor of hypocalcemia.
- Authors
Grodski, Simon; Serpell, Jonathan
- Abstract
Total thyroidectomy is now accepted worldwide as the standard surgical procedure for the management of benign bilateral nodular thyroid disease. Hypocalcemia is the most common complication of that procedure and a variety of strategies for diagnosing and managing post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia have been advocated. Increasingly, the use of intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) has been utilized to try to predict those patients at risk of developing post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia.
- Publication
World journal of surgery, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 7, p1367
- ISSN
0364-2313
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00268-008-9545-5