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Thyroid surgery may be required for excision of a goitre, thyroid nodules or thyroid cancer.
The type of surgery depends on the diagnosis and extent of disease.
This may involve removal of half (hemithyroidectomy) or the whole thyroid gland (total thyroidectomy), and sometimes the lymph nodes in the neck if there is cancerous involvement.
If the whole gland is removed, thyroid replacement tablets must be taken daily, for the rest of the patient's life.
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