Organ-salvaging surgeries for highly differentiated thyroid cancer in children
Komissarenko, I.V.; Rybakov, S.I.; Kovalenko, A.E.
Klinichna Khirurhiia 1: 27-30
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 10330816 Document Number: 510121
Retrospective analysis of results of organpreserving operations for the thyroid gland cancer (TGC) in 55 children and juveniles for 1981-1997 yrs period was done. The informativity of preoperative cytological (96.4%) and intraoperative express--histological (95.6%) investigations was determined. In cases of the cytological and express--histological diagnosis complexities the possibility of organpreserving intervention of hemithyroidectomy with the isthmus extirpation was noted. Primary thyroidectomy is operation of choice in the established diagnosis of TGC.