Differences in long-term quality of life between hemithyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy in patients treated for low-risk differentiated thyroid carcinoma

The long-term health-related quality-of-life implications of treating low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer with total thyroidectomy or hemithyroidectomy is important to patients but remains poorly understood.

Source: Surgery - October 14, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Pim J. Bongers, Caylee A. Greenberg, Ralph Hsiao, Marloes Vermeer, Menno R. Vriens, Martijn F. Lutke Holzik, David P. Goldstein, Karen Devon, Lorne E. Rotstein, Anna M. Sawka, Jesse D. Pasternak Source Type: research