Question 41 · LEK · Thyroid surgery
The most frequent complication after thyroid surgery is:
- A. bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paresis.
- B. post-surgical hypocalcaemia.
- C. bleeding into the post-surgical wound.
- D. keloid.
- E. thyroid storm.
Hint
Consider which complication results from impaired function of small glands lying next to the thyroid and is usually transient.
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