title: Inaugural Sidney Werner Lecture. The surgical treatment of thyroid disease in modern perspective.
abstract: It is timely to review the place of surgery in the treatment of thyroid disease when for some years endocrinologists, pharmacologists, and radiotherapists have made most of the running. This account falls naturally into three parts, simple, malignant, and toxic goitre.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D006042:Goiter / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis