Thyroid

At Piedmont, we are dedicated to the health of you and your family. The experienced doctors on staff at Piedmont provide compassionate, quality care in an advanced healing environment. With over 40 years of combined experience, our board certified physician staff is highly trained in all types of thyroid removal surgeries.

Your doctor may recommend thyroid removal if you have:

• A small thyroid growth (nodule or cyst)
• A thyroid gland that is so overactive it is dangerous (thyrotoxicosis)
• Cancer of the thyroid
• Noncancerous (benign) tumors of the thyroid that are causing symptoms
• Thyroid swelling (nontoxic goiter) that makes it hard for you to breathe or swallow

You may also have thyroid surgery if you have an overactive thyroid gland and do not want to have radioactive iodine treatment, or you cannot be treated with antithyroid medicines.