Ama, a 52-year-old teacher, presents to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital endocrine surgical unit with a 2 cm right thyroid nodule discovered incidentally on a neck ultrasound performed for a carotid Dop…
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A 52-year-old man, Kwabena, is referred from a district hospital in the Ashanti Region to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital surgical outpatient department with a 3 cm solitary right thyroid nodule di…
During a total thyroidectomy for a 4.5 cm Bethesda Category VI (Malignant — papillary thyroid carcinoma) nodule in a 45-year-old woman, Yaa, at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital theatre, the surgical…
Kwabena, a 41-year-old accountant, attends the UGMC surgical clinic with a 1.5 cm left thyroid nodule detected on ultrasound performed for unrelated neck pain. He is asymptomatic from a thyroid perspe…
Akua, a 38-year-old female teacher, presents to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital endocrine surgical outpatient clinic with a six-month history of a painless anterior neck swelling that moves on swal…
A 29-year-old woman, Ama, presents to the UGMC surgical outpatient clinic with a 1.8 cm right thyroid nodule found on ultrasound during investigation for neck pain following a road traffic collision. …
Kofi, a 45-year-old man, is reviewed on the ward at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region 8 hours after an uneventful total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma. He complains of perioral …
A 34-year-old woman, Yaa, presents to the Komfo Anokye endocrine surgical clinic with an 8-month history of palpitations, heat intolerance, weight loss of 8 kg, and a diffusely enlarged thyroid gland.…
A 29-year-old woman, Esi, is referred to the Korle Bu surgical unit from a district hospital in the Volta Region with a 4-month history of weight loss, heat intolerance, palpitations, and a diffusely …
A 52-year-old woman, Yaa, underwent total thyroidectomy for a 5 cm follicular carcinoma at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region. The operation was completed without apparent complication. Eightee…
A 34-year-old woman, Yaa, is reviewed on the ward 18 hours after a total thyroidectomy for Graves' disease at the UGMC surgical firm. She complains of perioral tingling and numbness in the fingertips …
A 45-year-old man, Kwabena, is undergoing total thyroidectomy at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for a large multinodular goitre causing tracheal compression. On the first postoperative day, he develops pe…
During a total thyroidectomy for a 4.5 cm right-sided follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma at a regional hospital theatre in the Eastern Region, the operating registrar is dissecting the …
A 38-year-old woman, Akua, presents to the Korle Bu general surgical outpatient clinic with a 6-month history of a right-sided neck swelling that has grown progressively. She reports no dysphagia, dys…
A 52-year-old woman, Ama, undergoes a total thyroidectomy at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for a 4.5 cm follicular thyroid carcinoma. The operation is uneventful. Twelve hours postoperatively, on the…
A 45-year-old man, Kwabena, is on the operating table at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital theatre undergoing a total thyroidectomy for multinodular goitre with compressive symptoms. The surgeon has liga…
A 45-year-old man, Kwabena, is on the operating table at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital theatre undergoing total thyroidectomy for a multinodular goitre with compressive symptoms. The anaesthetist…
During a total thyroidectomy for a locally invasive papillary thyroid carcinoma at the Komfo Anokye regional theatre, the operating registrar is dissecting the right side of the tracheo-oesophageal gr…
A 38-year-old woman, Akua, presents to the Komfo Anokye surgical unit with a 6-month history of a painless anterior neck swelling that moves on swallowing. She reports no dysphagia, no voice change, a…
During a total thyroidectomy for a large multinodular goitre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the registrar is dissecting the right lobe and ligating the inferior thyroid artery. The consultant asks…
During a total thyroidectomy for a large multinodular goitre at the Korle Bu general surgical unit, a 52-year-old woman, Adwoa, is found to have a deeply embedded left inferior parathyroid gland that …
Ama, a 52-year-old woman with known Graves' disease, is listed for total thyroidectomy at the UGMC surgical unit after failing two courses of carbimazole over 3 years. She has been rendered euthyroid …
A 52-year-old man, Kwabena, is undergoing total thyroidectomy at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for a 5 cm multinodular goitre causing progressive dysphagia. During the operation, the surgeon is disse…
A 29-year-old woman, Adwoa, is referred to the Komfo Anokye surgical outpatient clinic with a 3-month history of palpitations, heat intolerance, weight loss despite a good appetite, and a diffuse ante…
A 32-year-old woman, Ama, underwent a total thyroidectomy for Graves' disease at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region 8 hours ago. She is now in the surgical ward and complains of tingling in her…
During a right hemithyroidectomy at the Tamale Teaching Hospital for a solitary thyroid nodule, the operating registrar is dissecting Berry's ligament (the posterior suspensory ligament of the thyroid…
A 38-year-old woman, Akua, presents to the Komfo Anokye general surgical outpatient clinic with a 6-month history of a painless anterior neck swelling that moves on swallowing. She reports no dysphagi…
A 41-year-old woman, Adwoa, undergoes total thyroidectomy at the UGMC surgical unit for a 4.5 cm papillary thyroid carcinoma with bilateral multifocal disease. The operation is uncomplicated. On the s…
A 44-year-old woman, Ama, with known Graves' disease is listed for total thyroidectomy at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after failing two courses of carbimazole therapy and declining radioiodine. Pre…
A 45-year-old man, Kwabena, is on the operating table at the Korle Bu general surgical theatre undergoing a total thyroidectomy for a multinodular goitre with compressive symptoms. The surgeon has div…