MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto underwent a successful surgery to remove a benign thyroid nodule on Wednesday and he will rest for four days, including two at the hospital, officials said.
The 47-year-old leader, who took office in December, declared on his Twitter account that the surgery was a success and that he was resting in his hospital room.
"My sincere thanks and appreciation to the medical staff of the Central Military Hospital," Pena Nieto tweeted.
His presidential chief of staff Aurelio Nuno Mayer said Pena Nieto was in the operating room for almost two hours and was later awake in his room.
"We are happy -- everything went well, as had been planned," Nuno Mayer told a news conference.
The surgeon, Brigadier General Juan Felipe Sanchez Marle, said the nodule "did not show any evidence of malignancy" and that the president's vocal cords were intact.
Pena Nieto will rest at the hospital for two days and then continue the last two days of his convalescence at the Los Pinos presidential residence, where he will have private work meetings, officials said.
The president, who was accompanied by his wife, children and siblings at the hospital, will resume his public agenda Monday or Tuesday, Nuno Mayer said.
The surgeon said the president will need to take a thyroid hormone replacement drug once a day and will have a "completely normal life."
"There is no need for any other therapy because it was benign," Sanchez Marle said.
Pena had told reporters last week the nodule was detected seven years ago.
"I've just been putting it off and I think now is a good time to have it done on the recommendation of my doctors," he said last Thursday.
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