Wednesday, January 6, 2010

City Union Medical College Hospital successful implementation of endoscopic thyroidectomy

Bohai Sea News Network news recently, General Surgery, Union Hospital, city, using endoscopic technology, one female patients with ultrasound hemostasis in endoscopic resection of thyroid tumors knife, the patient did not leave the neck a long tradition of open surgery, "centipede scar" .

The 24-year-old female patient is a music teacher, long ago voice a bit hoarse, mistaken for occupational diseases, often with throat piece has been not improve. Look in the mirror when you stumbled on the neck a little bit of local processes, then went to a hospital. After careful examination, the doctor said that thyroid objects that need surgery, otherwise they will get bigger, there will be the possibility of cancer, according to the traditional surgical method, even if the use of "beauty line" to do intradermal suture, also in the neck leave a linear scar. As she hesitated, the city of General Surgery, Union Hospital, director of Chen Tieliang to her being carried out, introduced a new type of thyroid surgery, that patient through the chest area or areola only cut the size of three soybean incision to complete the neck of the thyroid surgery, postoperative neck, leaving no scars, but also safe and reliable operation. Thus, the patient underwent surgery with pleasure.

According to Chen Tieliang doctor, at present 50% of people who have small nodules, of which 4% to 10% rate of malignant thyroid tumor is a thyroid disease, the incidence rate of about 30%. Therefore, a majority of thyroid nodules are found, they should be the early surgical treatment. The traditional thyroid surgery in the neck and leaves 6-10 cm long surgical scar. How to miniaturized surgical incision and transferred to a more secluded location, is currently the best surgical approach is endoscopic thyroid surgery.

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