Alchemist doctor remove half kg Goitre from neck with surgery

Panchkula:  Alchemist hospital doctor removed a huge goitre from the neck of a 54 year old man. He had the swelling for the past 15 years and was gradually increasing in size to the current size. 

Dr Prachi Jain ENT surgeon Alchemist Hospital performed the complicated surgery of removing the enlarged thyroid which was going into the chest also through a neck incision only. Patient Jagpal Singh was advised surgery as it was causing him breathing problems. 

Jagpal Singh was taking treatment for thyroid from a hospital in Yamunanagar where doctors advised him to go through a surgery which can be done in only in PGI or Delhi. But attendants of patient decided to bring him to Alchemist Hospital.

Dr. Prachi Jain said that the patient was facing many problems due to increased size of the Goiter. It was pressing his wind pipe.  Dr. Prachi further said that its size was 444gm which is about twenty times higher than the normal weight. The normal weight of the thyroid is 25g. The patient discharged from the hospital and recovered well.

Goiter is an abnormal diffuse or nodular enlargement of the thyroid gland, a butterfly shaped gland situated in the neck just below the Adam’s apple. This produces hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) that are required to maintain the bodily processes necessary for life.

This problem occurs in people living in areas with iodine-deficient soil. Since iodine is a mineral necessary for thyroid hormone production, these people are not able to make enough of hormones and this causes the thyroid to enlarge. Another factor for iodine deficiency goiter is the consumption of hormone-inhibiting foods like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower.

Surgical removal of the thyroid gland (thyroidectomy) is required when the size is so large as to cause symptoms by stretching or compressing adjacent structures.