Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hypoparathyroidism is one of the most important complications of total thyroidectomy. Its treatment with the use of recombinant parathyroid hormone (PTH) is limited now, therefore the prophylaxis of post-surgical hypoparathyroidism is very important. A method of tension-free thyroidectomy (TFT) was proposed in 2021. TFT uses unusual medial approach to the recurrent laryngeal nerves (RLN) and parathyroid glands (PG), together with several principles decreasing tract...