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N T Hamilton

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PubMed1987

Endotracheal intubation following thyroidectomy.

Thirty-five patients requiring tracheostomy or endotracheal intubation, following thyroidectomy are reviewed. Conditions included 30 patients with multinodular goitre, three patients with Graves's disease and two patients with carcinoma of the thyroid. Early in the series, emergency tracheostomy was performed in three patients with airway obstruction following thyroidectomy. Ten patients were deemed at extremely high risk of developing airway obstruction and underwent prophylactic tracheostomy. Endotracheal intubation has been used in preference to tracheostomy in the latter part of the series. Emergency endoctracheal intubation was performed on one patient and prophylactic intubation was carried out in 20 patients. The morbidity and length of hospital stay in this latter group was considerably less than those requiring tracheostomy. It is concluded that patients with potential airway obstruction following thyroidectomy should have prophylactic endotracheal intubation, in preference to tracheostomy.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

Pulsion enterocele: long-term results of an abdominoperineal technique.

Surgical correction of large pulsion enterocele is a contentious subject and until a technique is founded upon proper anatomic facts, the arguments will continue. Pulsion enterocele follows changes in the pelvic cellular tissues and levator ani complex; both defects must be corrected. Synchronous abdominoperineal repair attends to both defects with accuracy, and in a healthy woman who wishes to regain normal vaginal function, it should be the procedure of choice. During the past 11 years, 66 patients, many of whom had been unsuccessfully treated by other techniques, have been managed with this procedure. Accurate follow-up has been possible in 60 patients, and of these women, 56 have been cured.

Adnexa Uteri↗
PubMed1976

Binding of thyroid microsomes by lymphocytes from patients with thyroid disease and normal subjects.

Lymphocytes that could bind 125I-labelled thyroid microsomal membranes (ABL) were present in the peripheral blood of patients with various types of thyroid disease as well as in normal healthy subjects. In patients with anti-thyroid cytoplasmic antibodies the number of ABL was about three times normal (11-21 +/- 0-60 compared with 3-26 +/- 0-18 per 10(4) lymphocytes). In contrast, in patients with thyroid disease without anti-thyroid cytoplasmic antibodies, the number of antigen-binding lymphocytes was not significantly greater than in the normal controls (3-94 +/- 0.14 per 10(4) lymphocytes). The binding of thyroid microsomes by antigen-binding lymphocytes could be blocked by thyroid microsomes but not by thyroid mitochondrial membranes, thyroglobulin or liver microsomes.

Autoantibodies↗