Hospital Based Study on Thyroidectomy in Elderly Patients and Their Surgical Outcomes

BACKGROUND increase in geriatric population, there is need to establish guidelines and by clinicians to standardize care for these patients. There is an elevated of perioperative morbidity among elderly patients undergoing surgical . performed a retrospective analysis on our database of elderly (aged over 60 ) patients undergoing thyroidectomy for benign as well as malignant lesions a tertiary care hospital in North East India with the aim to find out the incidence thyroid disease, preoperative diagnosis, management and prognosis in elderly . total of fifty four cases was included in the study, out of which forty six were and eight had palliative treatment. No major complication was noticed. experience suggests that thyroidectomy in the geriatric population can be safely, without any increased risk of complications. With close of the comorbidities and a structured planning with a careful evaluation and a risk factor stratification, the hazards of surgical could be contained. While a delay in performing surgical procedure in suspicious thyroid can expose the patients to a number of complications like of subclinical- or overt-hyperthyroidism or even metastasis in cases a malignant thyroid.