Clinical Study
Long-Term Effect of Surgery in Graves’ Disease: 20 Years Experience in a Single Institution
Table 3
Change in postoperative thyroid function in 209 Graves’ disease patients after subtotal thyroidectomy 3 months and 2 years after surgery.
| | | Follow-up: 2 years | | Postoperative thyroid function | Hypothyroidism |
Euthyroidism ( = 18) | Hyperthyroidism
Clinical ( = 11) | | | Subclinical ( = 9) | Clinical ( = 171) |
| | Follow-up: 3 months | Hypothyroidism | Clinical ( = 193) | 9 | 162 | 13 | 9 | | Euthyroidism ( = 15) | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | | Hyperthyroidism | Subclinical ( = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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