Thyroid surgery / Cosmetic surgery = :)
Science Daily recently put out a story that’s created a little buzz in the blogosphere. Entitled “Cosmetic surgery techniques can enhance thyroid surgery results,” the piece mostly reports on a Medical College of Georgia study on certain cosmetic surgery principles.
Specifically, Dr. David Terris, chair of chairs the Medical College of Georgia Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, “wanted to know if cosmetic surgery principles he learned in the facial plastic surgery part of his training could further improve results.”
His conclusion bore out his suspicions: “We have found that while keeping the management of the underlying thyroid problem as the first priority, we can still achieve a maximal cosmetic result.”
Terris’ prospective analysis was performed on some 248 patients (198 women, 50 men) attending MCG Medical Center between September 2003 and June 2006. Said patients required varying approaches to thyroid surgery, from a standard, inches-long neck incision to remove huge thyroids to minimally invasive techniques that cut the incision size in half to endoscopic approaches that reduce incision size half again.
Researchers reported that only one of the 248 patients required additional treatment for their surgery scar, receiving steroid injections for hypertrophic scarring.
The results of Dr. Terris’ study are published in the July issue of The Laryngoscope.
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