Thyroidectomy is the surgical procedure for removal of excessive enlargement of thyroid gland. Surgery of the neck never seemed to experience the popularity of that of the abdomen, and the goitre operations are not sought even today by the majority of surgeons.
. Goritre, which is the enlargement of the thyroid gland, is not a disease. It never endangers the life of a person. Doctors may have seen a case of goitre during his life in his daily practice but such patient with goitre didn't seek advice or treatment for his goitre from that doctor. They go to see him for other ailments.
. Therefore, thyroidectomy never seemed to be a popular surgery and as such there are only few doctors who have pined down their life to become thyroidectomist.
. The etiology of its enlargement is still unknown and only assumption of facts that protein bound iodine play in its role for enlargement. There is therefore no way to cure its enlargement or reduced its size of enlargement.
. Thus when once there is goitre, goitre goes on forever till the day of judgement or death. The only treatment for its cure is surgical removal. Therefore surgery remains the ideal treatment.
. Unlike the antithyroid drugs and radioactive iodine which are of real service only in the toxic phases surgery has its role in all the phases, of epithediolymphofibrosis.
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