[Quality of life of patients before and after surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter].

Quality of life of 89 patients with diffuse toxic goiter was analyzed before surgical intervention and at different terms after thyroidectomy or terminal subtotal resection of the thyroid gland using questionnaire SF-36. It was found that quality of life of patients with diffuse toxic goiter was lower than that of respondents without such pathology. The indices of quality of life one year after thyroidectomy (terminal subtotal resection of the thyroid gland) remained depending on the duration of the disease and complications of thyrotoxicosis, became reliably larger as compared with preoperative level due to social activity and emotional state.

[Specific features of laryngeal paresis following surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter (a prospective longitudinal passive study)].

Specific manifestations of postoperative laryngeal paresis observed with the use of indirect laryngoscopy are described in 53 patients subjected to the surgical treatment of diffuse toxic goiter. Laryngeal paresis was shown to develop both in the early (up to 7 days) and in the late (over 14 days) postoperative periods. The delayed form of pathology accounted for 13% of the total number of the cases of postoperative laryngeal paresis.

[The odontoid bone. Apropos of a surgically treated case].

An odontoid bone was detected in an adult patient after injury to neck, with secondary appearance of disorders related to C1-C2 instability that disappeared after posterior C1-C2 arthrodesis. The odontoid bone is a rare anomaly of debatable origin. Current pathogenicity theories are discussed.