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Thyroidectomy is a common surgical procedure that has several potential complications or sequelae including: temporary or permanent change in voice, temporary or permanently low calcium, need for lifelong thyroid hormone replacement, bleeding, infection, and the remote possibility of airway obstruction due to bilateral vocal cord paralysis.
The public has perceptual gaps around the purpose of colonoscopies, the subjective experience of the colonoscopy procedure, and the quantity of bowel preparation needed. [ 79 ] Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have used their social media platform to raise awareness about the importance of colonoscopy as a procedure for colon cancer ...
Researchers say a person with a negative initial colonoscopy and no family history of colorectal cancer may not need to have another colonoscopy for 15 years instead of the traditional 10-year wait.
“The way we ended up recommending colonoscopy is that over 10 years 43% of people getting the stool test were recommended to get a colonoscopy because of the positive findings on the stool test.”
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The first cases of myxedema were recognized in the mid-19th century (the 1870s), but its connection to the thyroid was not discovered until the 1880s when myxedema was observed in people following the removal of the thyroid gland (thyroidectomy). [82]
Virtual colonoscopy (VC, also called CT colonography or CT pneumocolon) is the use of CT scanning or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to produce two- and three-dimensional images of the colon (large intestine), from the lowest part, the rectum, to the lower end of the small intestine, and to display the images on an electronic display device.
Their results in 2023 were surprisingly good; great hopes for cancer treatment in the near future. #35 There's certain conditions where your bowel can leak into your stomach and you vomit s**t.