The Research has been made on (73) patients for whom a surgical operation was
made on the thyroid in Al-Assad University Hospital in Lattakia in 2000-2007. The study
was divided into: retrospective (32patients), prospective (41patients) and (11) pa
tients of
were subjected to second operation due to existence of a malignant cancer with a
percentage of (16,66%) .
The Total Thyroidectomy on both side was the most spread intervention with a
percentage of (57,14%) and next to it was the thyroid lobectomy with a percentage of
(28,79%).
The percentage of Total Early complication is (11,9%) and the Tetania was the most
repeated complication with a percentage of (3,57%) and next to it was the Recurrent
laryngeal nerve ,the Superior laryngeal nerve and the bleeding with a percentage of
(2,38%)for each . The higher percentage of complication has occurred in the starting
operation of the Total Thyroidectomy and next to it the Thyroid lobectomy .
The surgery of the Relapsed Thyroid is subject to more dangerous complications
from the starting intervention .
