title: [Surgical treatment of thyroid disease in adolescents].
abstract: Surgical treatment of goitre in children and teenagers under 18 is relatively rare and undertaken for strict therapeutic indications. It still arouses much controversy among surgeons, being loaded with a high percentage of complications, usually distant ones. The aim of the study was to analyse the surgical treatment of various goitre types under the age of 18 basing on 65 operations performed in the years 1994-1998. Operations for non-toxic and hyperactive nodular goitre, including Graves-Basedow disease, were predominant. Five cases of thyroid carcinoma were found. No serious complications were observed during and after the surgery. Our own material and the 5-year observation reveal that surgical treatment of thyroid diseases in children and adolescents carried out for definite indications by an experienced operating team is successful and causes only few complications.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dadan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Razak
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laszkiewicz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dziecioł
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Puchalski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006042:Goiter / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery