[Complications of thyroid surgery, apropos of 104 thyroidectomies at the Ougadougou University Hospital Center].

We report a series of 104 thyroidectomies collected in Surgery and ENT departments of the University Hospital Center (UHC) of Ouagadougou. This study was composed of 85 women (81.73%) and 19 men (18.27%) 8 to 73 years old. 49 unilateral resection and 85 bilateral one were realized. Histopathologic examination has been done for 54 specimen only: 49 benign lesions (95.20%) and 5 malignant lesions (4.80%) were noted. We have observed: 7 cases of hemorrhagic complications (6.73%) with 1 death, 10 cases of unilateral laryngeal recurrent nerve palsy, permanent in 4 cases (3.85%), 2 cases of upper laryngeal nerve palsy (1.92%), 2 cases of permanent hypoparathyroidism (1.92%), 5 cases of post operative infection (4.80%). There were 2 deaths (1.92%). These results are similar with other authors results but the frequency of thyroidectomy complications is still important. Improvements in clinical practice, more specialists and great experience would improve post operative results of thyroidectomy.