Endocrine Abstracts

The acceptance of any operative or interventional procedures depends on the capability of the surgeon to explain the procedure in detail and also associated complications without undue fear to the patient. The aim of this prospective randomised study is to establish an ideal model for the surgeon to explain. We used three models for explaining the procedure of hemithyroidectomy (removal of diseased lobe plus the isthumus and a cuff of contralateral lobe and pyramidal lobe if p...