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What is a thyroidectomy?

What is a thyroidectomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The surgical removal of the thyroid gland.
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Treatment prognosis is mixed with thyroidectomy usually recommended with subsequent lifelong obligatory thyroid replacement therapy.
The patient received palliative radiation to the neck and systemic chemotherapy, but she died of widely metastatic disease approximately 2 years after the thyroidectomy.
After a thyroidectomy the thyroid produces insufficient hormone levels and the person becomes hypothyroid.
One rainy afternoon, I brought my laptop to Osteen's kitchen, and we watched a recording of another thyroidectomy I'd performed.
If you've had a thyroidectomy, you'll have to undergo two primary thyroid tests on a regular basis.
After a couple of weeks it transpired that decisions had been taken for Lennie to undergo mitral valve surgery and a thyroidectomy.

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