Endocrine Abstracts

Background: In the modern day busy clinical practice the communication between patient/relative and care giver is at minimal level. The patients and relatives feel apprehensive when advised about the surgical/interventional treatment. In such situation they feel the need of detail information from the care givers which on many occasions is not available. Story telling is such a technique of health communication made out in common man language which can be made animated and int...

Introduction: Thyroid surgery was initially considered as “horrid butchery” due to associated high morbidity and mortality, however with the advent of safe surgical techniques and improved understanding of thyroid physiology, thyroid surgery has become safer. Still there are certain intra-operative factors, as described in Difficulty Thyroidectomy Scale (DTS)which are thought to be associated with adverse outcome. However anatomical parameters also need to be address...