title: [Prognostic factors in highly malignant thyroid tumors].
abstract: Patients diagnosed as suffering from highly malignant thyroid tumours die within a few months due to rapid tumour progression. Survival depends on some valuable prognostic factors, namely tumour size, lymph node involvement, metastatic status, fast tumour growth and preoperative N. recurrens paresis. Life expectation and life quality are dependent on the feasibility of radical surgical treatment. It is necessary to remove the whole tumour to improve the survival rate and to reduce the incidence of local recurrence. Some highly malignant thyroid tumours show a high chemosensitivity.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Abteilung, Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital, Wien.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hollinsky
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kober
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Loicht
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Keminger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D015996:Survival Rate; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000379:methods; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Prognostische Faktoren bei hochmalignen Schilddrüsentumoren.