Cheng Leo H H, McColl Lord, Parker Gary
St Bartholomew's & the Royal London, and Homerton University Hospitals, London, UK.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2012 Oct;50(7):592-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2011.10.009. Epub 2011 Nov 17.
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.
甲状腺疾病在发达国家和发展中国家都很常见。我们回顾性比较了两个病例系列的手术病理、甲状腺切除术类型和术后并发症，一个病例系列来自西非的“仁慈号”医疗船，共87例患者，另一个来自英国伦敦，共120例患者。在这两个病例系列中，最常见的手术是甲状腺半叶切除术，最常见的疾病是结节性增生。血清血肿的术后并发症发生率与大型国际系列研究相当。
