Abstract

RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ, Zenén et al. Critical observations on the nodular disorders of thyroid. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.4, pp. 503-515. ISSN 1029-3019.

The thyroid nodule is frequent in the clinical practice as in the surgical one. The treatment offering better possibilities seems to be hemithyroidectomy for benign unilateral tumours and total thyroidectomy for malignancies, with lymphadenectomy in case of ganglion metastasis; which are surgeries with little morbidity when carried out by experienced surgeons. The postsurgical suppressive treatment with thyroid hormones can stop the tumorous progress, can induce the metastasis regression and can increase survival. On the other hand, in the recurrent and metastatic tumours which fix no iodine, the external radiotherapy and the auxiliary chemotherapy are used. Taking into account that thyroid malignant neoplasias are potentially curable and free of sequels, some approaches are exposed on this respect in this work

Keywords : thyroid cancer; diagnosis; surgical treatment; hemithyroidectomy; total thyroidectomy.

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