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Revista Información Científica
versión On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumen
REYES DOMINGUEZ, Yondris; MORO VELA, Rafael Ángel; RAMIREZ NUNEZ, Ernesto y DAVID CARDONA, Lázaro. Characterization of the thyroid cancer in the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto, Guantanamo. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2018, vol.97, n.2, pp. 235-243. ISSN 1028-9933.
Introduction:
in Guantanamo the thyroid cancer has not been studied.
Objective:
to characterize the thyroid cancer in the Service of General Surgery of the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto during the years 2012-2016.
Method:
A descriptive, prospective and longitudinal study was made. The following variables were approached: age; sex; topography, size, evolutionary stage and histological type of the tumor; injure associate; moment of choice of the total tiroidectomy and time for the choice of carrying out it and postoperative complications.
Results:
the patients were women mainly; they had age between 29 and 39 years; it was affected more the left lobe of the gland and the tumor was smaller than 2 cm; it was more frequent the tumor papilar; the most associate lesion was the goiter multinodular. The biggest proportion in the patient one was in the stage II of the cancer, and survived2 to 5 years. All they were carried out tiroidectomy that decided from the preoperative consultation in 53.0%. 23.5% of the patients presented some complication.
Conclusions:
It is revealed the importance of the precocious diagnosis and the decision of the total tiroidectomy from the preoperative consultation.
Palabras clave : tumors of the thyroid; thyroid nodule; thyroid surgery.