Open AccessPapillary thyroid carcinoma
Author(s) -
K Krgović,
Ivan Paunović,
Aleksandar Diklić,
Vladan Živaljević,
Svetislav Tatić,
M Havelka,
M Todorović-Kazić,
Nevena Kalezić,
Vesna Božić
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
acta chirurgica iugoslavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0887
pISSN - 0354-950X
DOI - 10.2298/aci0303078k
Subject(s) - medicine , occult , thyroid cancer , papillary carcinoma , papillary thyroid cancer , thyroidectomy , cancer , thyroid , papillary adenocarcinoma , thyroid carcinoma , disease , endocrine system , surgery , adenocarcinoma , pathology , hormone , alternative medicine
Papillary thyroid cancer is after ovarian cancer the most frequent malignant disease of the endocrine system and because of this fact, early detection and appropriate surgical treatment is essential. Radical surgical treatment lower the risk of the disease relapse and postoperative adjuvant therapy with radio iodine is possible as well as postoperative follow up with tireoglobulin measurement. If the total thyroidectomy is performed in highly specialized institution the risk of postoperative complications is acceptable and therefore is the treatment of choice for papillary thyroid cancer. Only the patients with occult papillary thyroid cancer can be treated with hemythyroidectomy. In our series of 410 patients the majority of the patients (85,12%) were in the early phase of the disease and the degree of successfully performed radical surgery for papillary thyroid cancer was very high (tumor reduction was performed in only 1,46% of cases)