Left Thyroid Lobectomy
Thyroid cancer surgery doesn’t always need to include removal of entire thyroid. Thyroid cancer can be cured in many people by removing only half of the thyroid, called a thyroid lobectomy. Watch this beautiful, bloodless operation where Dr Gary Clayman removes only half of the thyroid to cure thyroid cancer. Learn more at http://www.thyroidcancer.com/thyroid-cancer-surgery/thyroid-lobectomy. Many patients have a thyroid operation that is too large for the size of their cancer. Surgeons who are not expert at thyroid cancer surgery almost always remove the entire thyroid and this is often too much surgery that the patient doesn’t need. More expert surgeons who have done thousands of thyroid cancer operations know when the patient doesn’t need the entire thyroid removed because some people only need half of their thyroid removed (a thyroid lobectomy). In a different video, Dr Clayman shows a patient with cancer that has spread to lymph nodes so that patient could not have the mini-thyroid operation shown in this video, they needed the entire thyroid removed. Here, Dr Clayman shows the vocal cord nerve and the entire cancer is removed leaving the patient with the normal half of their thyroid.
