title: [Retrospective analysis of clinical data of patients received thyroid surgery in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1986 to 2012].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the changes in the constituent ratio of patients received surgical therapy for their thyroid diseases in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1986 to 2012.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical data of patients received surgical therapy with pathologically confirmed findings from 1986 to 2012 were collected, and a corresponding database was established. The constituent ratios of thyroid diseases and thyroid malignant tumor among different population groups in different years were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of patients with thyroid diseases admitted to our hospital had significantly increased in the past 27 years, particularly those with nodular goiter or thyroid cancer. The composition ratios of thyroid cancer and nodular goiter increased significantly, and among malignancies the papillary thyroid carcinoma increased obviously. The detection rate of papillary thyroid micro-carcinoma had continuously increased since 2008.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thyroid diseases and malignant tumor pathological types had dramatically changed in hospitalized patients in our hospital in the past 27 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, PUMC Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Wei-ming
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Lian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jian-chun
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Zhi-qiang
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Wei-sheng
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*