Risk of ductal slippage in thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine tumor in clinical practice. If a patient has ductal slippage caused by thyroid cancer, it is a more serious type of thyroid cancer and the risk is usually high. Patients need to take timely treatment measures to prevent the disease from worsening and affecting their normal life.

1. Symptoms:

When the thyroid duct slips, patients often experience obvious neck pain and swallowing discomfort in the early stage. As the disease progresses, they may experience hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, and breathing difficulties. If not treated in time, lymph node metastasis, lung metastasis, bone metastasis, etc. may occur in the later stage, causing discomfort to the body.

2. Risk level:

1. Risk of total resection: Total resection has a high risk. Because there are recurrent laryngeal nerve and superior laryngeal nerve around the thyroid gland, total resection may damage the recurrent laryngeal nerve and superior laryngeal nerve, causing sequelae such as hoarseness. It may also damage the nerves around the thyroid gland, causing symptoms such as choking when drinking water, lowered voice tone, and choking when drinking water.

2. Risks of hemisection: Hemisection may damage the trachea and esophagus, causing symptoms such as coughing when drinking water and hoarseness after surgery. Damage to the esophagus may also cause risks such as postoperative esophageal fistula, throat fistula and esophageal stenosis;

3. TNM staging and grading: T represents the tumor range, N represents whether there is lymph node metastasis, and M represents whether there is distant metastasis. If the patient undergoes TNM staging and grading, the risk level is relatively low, while for patients with advanced stages, the risk level is relatively high;

4. Other aspects: For patients with ductal slippage caused by thyroid cancer, if there is no distant metastasis, invasion of large blood vessels and lung invasion, the risk of surgical resection is relatively low. However, if the patient undergoes TNM staging, the risk is relatively high.

It is recommended that patients with thyroid cancer complete relevant examinations in a timely manner and actively cooperate with doctors for treatment. After surgery, they can use drugs such as levothyroxine sodium tablets under the guidance of doctors to avoid thyroid hormone suppression therapy.