METHOD FOR AUTOTRANSPLANTING THYROID GLAND TISSUES WHEN CARRYING OUT SUBTOTAL THYROID GLAND RESECTION ON THE OCCASION OF BILATERAL MULTINODULAR GOITER Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves preparing autograft and macrovisually determining pathological process nature and extension in removed thyroid gland tissue. Two fragments are cut out from removed intact thyroid gland tissue unaffected with the pathological process and are grafted into the space between cervical sternothyroid and sternohyoid muscles. Two tissue fragments are of volume not greater than 2 cm³ each. They are subjected to urgent cytological study. Then, the fragments are comminuted by making five longitudinal and 5 transverse incisions in each fragment and fixed in the space between cervical sternothyroid and sternohyoid muscles with two musculofascial interrupted sutures.

EFFECT: reduced frequency of postoperative hypothyroidism; improved functional and cosmetic results.