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Can you have thyroid surgery even if your thyroid is overactive?

Original Title

Influence of Preoperative Thyroid Status on Clinical Outcomes in Graves' Disease Undergoing Thyroidectomy.

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Summary

Doctors usually want your thyroid to be calm before surgery, but sometimes that’s not possible. This study checked if having an overactive thyroid before surgery causes more problems.

Proposed Mechanism

No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.

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Authors

Lee PS, Chen JY, Kuo PC, Lee CC, Chen PL, Chen HS, Huang CJ

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DOI:10.1002/wjs.70020
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