ABSTRACT
Introduction 474
Preoperative evaluation 475
Postoperative haematoma 475
Key learning points 487
References 488
No sensible man will, on slight consideration, attempt to extirpate a goitrous thyroid gland. If a surgeon should be so adventurous or foolhardy as to undertake the enterprise y every stroke of his knife will be followed by a torrent of blood and lucky will it be for him if his victim lives long enough to enable him to finish his horrid butchery.