Why would a person need thyroid surgery?
Dr. Terris: The most common reason why you would need your thyroid removed is either you have thyroid cancer or you have a nodule and it’s not clear if you have cancer. The thyroid is removed to make sure it’s not cancerous. Occasionally it’s simply enlarged and it’s causing cosmetic disfigurement or pressure on the neck and so there may be other reasons why people need to have their thyroids removed. What is the traditional way of removing the thyroid? Dr. Terris: The conventional way of removing your thyroid is to make a big, what used to be called the necklace incision, low in the neck. Nowadays, it’s evolved so we use ever smaller incisions. The latest is to move the incisions away from the neck because the neck is a very public location. It began by moving it somewhere under the arm. Explain that and how it has evolved. Dr. Terris: There have been a number of techniques that have evolved to move the incision away from the neck including going on the chest wall, coming under the ar
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