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Outpatient thyroid surgery appears to be safe for the majority of patients, according to a study following 91 patients at two hospitals.
"This is a logical benefit of doing less-invasive surgical techniques," says Dr. David Terris, chair of the Medical College of Georgia Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. "Now patients are able to go home the same day they have surgery."
With careful selection, 52 of the patients, or 57 percent, were able to leave the hospital about two hours after surgery, according to the study being presented during the 110th Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Sept. 17-20 in Toronto.
Of the patients operated on at MCG Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., between December 2004 and October 2005, 26 were kept in the hospital just under a day and 13 were admitted.
Smaller incisions, reduced use of surgical drains and prophylactic calcium supplementation have enabled thyroid surgery
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