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C Ferry

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[Prognostic evolution of Graves' disease. Surgical treatment (author's transl)].

We report 80 cases of Graves' disease with goiter and homogeneous scintiscan. All the patients underwent surgery after treatment of hyperthyroidism by ATD then by iodine : bilateral subtotal lobectomy was performed in 89 % of cases. The patients have been followed up for 1 to 10 years after surgery, the actuarial rate of euthyroidism is stable at 77 % from the 3rd to the 10th year on. In the same way, 16 % of hypothyroidism and 9 % of recurrent hyperthyroidism do not change from respectively the first and the third year to the tenth after surgery. No correlation has been found between their appearance and the various clinical and biological parameters which has been studied.

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