Surgical treatment and methods of pain relief in patients with thyrotoxicosis

From the time of N. I. Pirogov to the present day, in the treatment of patients with severe forms of thyrotoxicosis, who have unsuccessfully experienced conservative therapy, the method of choice is surgery. In our clinic for 23 years more than 850 patients with simple and thyrotoxic goiter have been operated on. Of these, 467 underwent surgery for thyrotoxicosis. There were 12.6 times more women than men. Most of the patients were middle-aged. In recent years, operations have been performed much more often in patients with thyrotoxicosis, much less often in patients with simple goiter.