Changes in Quality of Life Following Surgical Treatment of Benign Non-toxic Goiter (SOLOIST)

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Goiter

Treatments: Procedure: Thyroidectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02651818

S-20132

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to investigate the influence of surgical treatment on benign non-toxic goiter on the disease specific quality of life evaluated 6 months after thyroid surgery.

All investigations follow already scheduled treatments.

Enrollment: 104 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing hemi- or total thyroidectomy for benign non-toxic goiter with pressure symptoms
• The patients must be able to understand, read and write Danish

Exclusion criteria

• Previous surgery to the neck
• Diabetes or any neuromuscular disorders
• Present or previous head and neck malignancy, including malignancy found in the surgical thyroid specimen or suspicion hereof