Know your parathyroid glands – by Dr Harold Gunatillake “If you have tingling of fingers , numbness, crampy leg muscles, irritability, depression, signs of asthma, hoarseness, losing voice and difficulty in swallowing- this is the article you must read”- Dr Harold (The author is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons- served in UK, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Sydney, Australia) You are aware of the thyroid glands that sits on your trachea (wind-pipe) in the lower part of your neck, but you are not aware that attached to the four corners of the thyroid lobes behind, are 4 minute yellow spots which needs preservation even when your thyroid glands are removed for nodular enlargement or other disease processes. When you remove your thyroid gland the surgeons call it a subtotal or partial thyroidectomy because the need to remove the gland close to the parathyroid must be preserved. These glands ...

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