If you’ve been diagnosed with a medical condition with your thyroid, you might be a candidate for thyroid surgery. While surgery is a dramatic option, it is often the most effective one. But before …Read More
If your general practitioner suggests that you might have an over or underactive thyroid, they might start talking about your endocrine system. But what exactly is the endocrine system? Many are famil…Read More
As long as there were no complications during thyroid or parathyroid surgery or damage to the nerves, there should be no long-term complications with a patient’s vocal cords or voice. Depending on t…Read More
Performing Thyroid Surgery Thyroid surgery can take anywhere between one to two hours. The length or surgery time depends on whether or not Dr. Kroeker is taking out half of the thyroid or doing a to…Read More
How intubation can affect a patient’s voice A patient having thyroid or parathyroid surgery must be given a general anesthetic. This means that an anesthesiologist will insert a breathing tube for t…Read More
Hyperthyroidism means you have too much thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism means you do not have enough thyroid hormone. Each has varied symptoms, although, some of the symptoms do overlap. The thyroid…Read More
The thyroid is the gland that hangs over your trachea like a dumbbell and looks like a butterfly. It produces thyroid hormone. Surgery is performed on the thyroid for: Cancer Nodules that are suspicio…Read More
Any surgery where you make as small of an incision as possible to do a proper surgery is minimally invasive surgery. Different people will define minimally invasive surgery in different ways, but typi…Read More
