Can I have a neck tuck while having a benign cyst removed from my thyroid?

Hello.  I don't recommend combining a neck lift with a hemithyroidectomy (the most likely surgery to remove your cyst).  The two procedures are very different even though one is operating in the same anatomical region.  A thyroid surgery entails dissection between your strap muscles to get to the thyroid cyst.  Neck lifts have incisions far from the midline of your neck and involve dissection in a different level (or plane).  Combining the two will not allow your plastic surgeon to achieve the best outcome.  I recommend getting the cyst out, confirm its benign pathology and then doing the neck lift at a later date after you're well healed.  Take care.

Thank you for your question. I can understand the thought of 'why you are there why not add another procedure?', although there is a fundamental reason why this is not a good idea. Primarily you will not know definitively what your thyroid nodule is until the histopathology is returned after your surgery. Therefore you may require further treatment for the nodule that may be compromised by the second 'lift' procedure. The first priority of any patient care is to do no harm and combining procedures with differing objectives can compromise this. I hope that helps.RegardsDr Guy Watts