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.