title: [Thyroid carcinoma. Criteria for the selection of surgical treatment].
abstract: Surgery is still today the first choice treatment in the thyroid neoplasm. The authors examined 37 patients with thyroid cancer out of 389 thyroidal operation performed in the period 1982-85 at the Institute of Surgical Pathology II and Surgical Clinic of University of Bari. The pro-operation screening was scintigraphy, US study and needle biopsy. In 23 case, with positive cytology examination and/or clinical malignancy the performed operation was total extracapsular thyroidectomy. Other nine patients underwent lobectomy and in 2 cases the operation chosen was sub-total strumectomy completed by thyroidectomy after histologically proved malignancy. The laterocervical lymphadenectomy was done only in the case of nodes involvement. Operative mortality was 0 and post-operative stay was about 6 days. The extracapsular total thyroidectomy is the first choice operation for cancer. Nevertheless recently some Authors proposed less destructive operation in the small differentiated type cancers with good results.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica II, Università di Bari.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Greco
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gentile
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Testini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carrata
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Caputi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Paccione
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013965:Thyroidectomy
vernacular_title: I carcinomi della tiroide. Criteri di scelta del trattamento chirurgico.