Displacement of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Patients with Recurrent Goiter Undergoing Redo Thyroid Surgery

Table 1

Preoperative diagnosis and indications for thyroid surgery in patients with recurrent goiter, surgical procedures, and final malignant diagnosis.

Indications for redo surgery	%	Patients	Surgery			Pathology
			TT	RH	LH
MNG	38.8	19	7	9	3	P Ca (1) PTM (2)
Solitary nodule	14.3	7	--	5	2
Hyperthyroidism (4)	8.2
Toxic MNG		2	1	1	--
Toxic adenoma		2	--	2	--
MNG associated with hyperparathyroidism	10.2	5	1	3	1	PTM (1)
Cytology	28.5
Follicular lesion		6	2	2	2	PTM (2)
Hurthle cell lesion		2	--	2	--	PTM (1)
AUS/FLUS		6	1	2	3	PTM (1)
Total		49	12	26	11	P Ca (8)

MNG: multinodular goiter; AUS/FLUS: atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance; TT: total thyroidectomy; RH: right hemithyroidectomy; LH: left hemithyroidectomy; P Ca: papillary cancer; PTM: papillary thyroid microcancer.