<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Introduction:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><b> </b><span style="font-family:Verd...<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Introduction:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><b> </b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Goitre is an increase in the volume of the thyroid gland. Goiters may be congenital or acquired, diffuse or nodular, functional or non-functional, benign or malignant. <b></b></span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Purpose:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></b> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">The objectives of this work were to study and determine the frequency of benign goitre in the general surgery department of CHU Gabriel Touré, and to study epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects. </span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and Method:</span></b><span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This was a retrospective and prospective study conducted in the general surgery department of CHU Gabriel Touré, from January 1999 to December 2019. Included in the study were all patients with benign goiter confirmed in histology, hospitalized and treated in the service. Patients with thyroid malignant tumours, strumite, thyroid tract cyst, cervical abscess and neck trauma were not retained. Socio-demographic, clinical, para-clinical, therapeutic and post-operative aspects were the study parameters. Word processing and tables were done with Microsoft Word and Excel 2016 software. Data analysis was performed with Epi info7 software, the statistical test used was the Khi2 test and a value of P</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0.05 was considered statistically significant. </span><b></b></span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> A total of 253 patient files were collected. Thyroidectomy represented 5.02% (253/5036) of surgical procedures. The average age was 42.5 years with a standard deviation of 15.6 and extremes of 13.9 and 76 years. The sex ratio was 8.7 in favour of the female sex. Anterior cervical swelling was the most common reason for consultation with 90.0% (230/253). There were 118/253 cases of euthyroid goiter (46.6%), 132/253 cases of hyperthyroid goiter (52.2%) and 3/253 cases of Basedow’s disease (1.2%). Histology revealed (178/253) cases of micro and macro follicular colloid adenoma (70.3%), (27/253) cases of micro and macro follicular vesicular adenoma (10.7%) and (48/253) cases of micro and macro vesicular hyperplasia. The most performed surgical techniques were subtotal thyroidectomy with a rate of 138/253 (54.5%) isthmo-lobectomy with a rate of 102/253 (40.3%), lobectomy with a rate of 11/253 (4.3%) and isthmectomy 1/253 (0.4%). One-month follow-up was marked by 4 cases of surgical site infection (1.6%), 2 cases of transient hypocalcemia (0.8%). One-year follow-up was simple in 98.4% of cases, we noted 4 cases of keloid. The average length of hospitalization was 3.31</span></span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">±</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">1 days. </span><b></b></span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion:</span></b><span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Goiter surgery is relatively common in the general surgery department of CHU Gabriel Touré. Good preparation and better post-operative monitoring could help minimize post-operative complications</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span>展开更多
文摘<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Introduction:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><b> </b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Goitre is an increase in the volume of the thyroid gland. Goiters may be congenital or acquired, diffuse or nodular, functional or non-functional, benign or malignant. <b></b></span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Purpose:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></b> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">The objectives of this work were to study and determine the frequency of benign goitre in the general surgery department of CHU Gabriel Touré, and to study epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects. </span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and Method:</span></b><span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This was a retrospective and prospective study conducted in the general surgery department of CHU Gabriel Touré, from January 1999 to December 2019. Included in the study were all patients with benign goiter confirmed in histology, hospitalized and treated in the service. Patients with thyroid malignant tumours, strumite, thyroid tract cyst, cervical abscess and neck trauma were not retained. Socio-demographic, clinical, para-clinical, therapeutic and post-operative aspects were the study parameters. Word processing and tables were done with Microsoft Word and Excel 2016 software. Data analysis was performed with Epi info7 software, the statistical test used was the Khi2 test and a value of P</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0.05 was considered statistically significant. </span><b></b></span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> A total of 253 patient files were collected. Thyroidectomy represented 5.02% (253/5036) of surgical procedures. The average age was 42.5 years with a standard deviation of 15.6 and extremes of 13.9 and 76 years. The sex ratio was 8.7 in favour of the female sex. Anterior cervical swelling was the most common reason for consultation with 90.0% (230/253). There were 118/253 cases of euthyroid goiter (46.6%), 132/253 cases of hyperthyroid goiter (52.2%) and 3/253 cases of Basedow’s disease (1.2%). Histology revealed (178/253) cases of micro and macro follicular colloid adenoma (70.3%), (27/253) cases of micro and macro follicular vesicular adenoma (10.7%) and (48/253) cases of micro and macro vesicular hyperplasia. The most performed surgical techniques were subtotal thyroidectomy with a rate of 138/253 (54.5%) isthmo-lobectomy with a rate of 102/253 (40.3%), lobectomy with a rate of 11/253 (4.3%) and isthmectomy 1/253 (0.4%). One-month follow-up was marked by 4 cases of surgical site infection (1.6%), 2 cases of transient hypocalcemia (0.8%). One-year follow-up was simple in 98.4% of cases, we noted 4 cases of keloid. The average length of hospitalization was 3.31</span></span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">±</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">1 days. </span><b></b></span><b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion:</span></b><span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Goiter surgery is relatively common in the general surgery department of CHU Gabriel Touré. Good preparation and better post-operative monitoring could help minimize post-operative complications</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span>