Repeat operations in nodular formations and cancer of the thyroid in a region of endemic goiter
Ageev, I.S.; Minkin, A.U.; Kopylov, V.I.; Martiushova, N.A.
Voprosy Onkologii 33(12): 81-85
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 2962366 Document Number: 297959
The paper discusses a 5-year experience of the Dispensary Department of Head and Neck Cancer with repeated operations for recurrent nodular goiter (60 cases), thyroid cancer developing in recurrent goiter (18 cases) an thyroid malignancies (28 patients). Intrafascial partial resection and reduced extent of surgery proved to be insufficiently radical in 46.4% of cancer patients and one-third of those with benign lesions.