Abstract
Diseases of the thyroid are common in the developed and developing world. We retrospectively
compared surgical pathologies, types of thyroidectomy, and postoperative complications
between 2 case series, one from the Mercy Ships in West Africa with 87 patients, and
the other from London in the United Kingdom with 120 patients. In both, the most common
operation was hemithyroidectomy, and nodular hyperplasia was the most common disease.
The postoperative complication rate of sero-haematoma was comparable with large international
series.
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Publication history
Published online: November 21, 2011
Accepted:
October 23,
2011
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