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Total Thyroidectomy In The Management Of Graves' Disease, Mahamoud Mohamed Abo El Yazed, Adel Mohammad Abdul-Haleim Lasheen, Abdella Nazeer Yasieno, Abd Elnaby Saeid Ismaiel, Mohammed Ibrahim Hassan Rashed

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal

Background; Graves’ disease (GD) is an autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland in which thyrotropin receptor antibodies (TRAb) stimulate thyroid stimulating hormone receptors (TSH-R), thereby increasing thyroid hormone production and release , Aim and objectives: The aim of this work was to evaluate the outcome of total thyroidectomy in the treatment of Graves' disease. Patient and methods; Fifty patients have goitre was prospectively studied. All patients were undergoing capsular dissection total thyroidectomy after preoperative preparation at Al-Hussein University Hospital. Result; As regard Postoperative parameters distribution between the two studied groups, we found that there is a significant difference between the …