[1791: a decisive moment in endocrine surgery].
On the 20th of May 1791 a women aged 24 presented herself at the "Hôtel-Dieu" in Paris. She sufferd of a frontal cervical tumor. This giante tumor obliged Pierre Joseph Desault, chief surgeon, to accept the removal of the tumor. At the dawn of the XIX century this operation based on new precepts stand as a fundamental rupture in the approach of treatment of goiter.
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