Introduction:

thyroid carcinoma constitutes less than 1% of malignant neoplasms in the general population and 0.5% -3% in pediatric age, but it is the most frequent malignant neoplasm of the endocrine system, being responsible for 1% of cases. cancer deaths.

Objective:

to characterize clinically and epidemiologically patients undergoing surgical treatment for thyroid cancer.

Methods:

a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional, observational study was carried out in 45 patients undergoing surgical treatment for thyroid cancer in the General Surgery service of the ``Carlos Manuel de Céspedes´´ Hospital during the period between January 2015-December 2018.

Results:

the mean age of the patients was 49.04 years, female (75.56%). First-degree family history with some type of thyroid cancer was the only risk factor in 4.44%. Tumors of the papillary histological type predominated (77.78%). Total thyroidectomy was the most used surgical procedure (75.56%). The correlation between fine-needle aspiration cytology and frozen biopsy was recommended for clinical practice.

Conclusions:

the present investigation concludes with the characterization of patients with thyroid cancer who received surgical treatment, by means of total thyroidectomy in almost all cases, most of them females in middle age of life and with absence of risk factors to suffer from this disease. disease, the histological variety of papillary type was the most frequent, with a correlation between fine-needle aspiration cytology and biopsy, which is why we recommend such a procedure in daily clinical practice.

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