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Total thyroidectomy as primary surgical management for thyroid disease: surgical therapy experience from 5559 thyroidectomies in a less-developed region

Overview of attention for article published in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, January 2016
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Title
Total thyroidectomy as primary surgical management for thyroid disease: surgical therapy experience from 5559 thyroidectomies in a less-developed region
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12957-016-0772-1
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Jisheng Hu, Nan Zhao, Rui Kong, Dawei Wang, Bei Sun, Lifeng Wu

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety of total thyroidectomy for thyroid disorders and summarise the treatment experience in a less-developed region. This was a retrospective observational cohort study using the computerised database of the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. All consecutive thyroidectomy patients from 2003 to 2014 were included in this study. Demographics, surgical procedure, diagnoses, morbidity and mortality were retrospectively reviewed. There were a total of 714 men and 4845 women in this study, with a mean age of 55 (range 9-87) years. A total of 4632 patients underwent total thyroidectomy for primary surgical treatment, and 189 patients previously underwent partial thyroidectomy. A total of 56.2 % of the patients had multinodular goitre, including 12.23 % who were thyrotoxic. Graves' disease and Hashimoto's disease were diagnosed in 2.82 and 7.23 % of the patients, respectively. Papillary thyroid cancer was identified in 1336 patients, 44.99 % of whom had papillary microcarcinoma. The total prevalence of permanent complications of first-time and secondary surgeries was 0.35 and 7.41 %, respectively. During thyroid surgery, 945 patients underwent parathyroid autotransplantation. Initial total thyroidectomy can be safely performed for both benign and malignant thyroid diseases in a less-developed region. The morbidity of a secondary surgical procedure after subtotal thyroidectomy is significantly high compared to first-time surgery.

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Unknown 59 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 19%
Researcher 8 14%
Student > Master 4 7%
Other 3 5%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 21 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 46%
Psychology 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Philosophy 1 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 23 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2016.
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#14,705,554
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#503
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#217,264
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Outputs of similar age from World Journal of Surgical Oncology
#9
of 54 outputs
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