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Revista Médica Electrónica
versión On-line ISSN 1684-1824
Resumen
ORTEGA PENATE, Juan Alberto et al. Outcomes of the diagnostic means in patients undergoing thyroid cancer surgery. University Hospital “Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández”. Matanzas. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2020, vol.42, n.6, pp. 2609-2620. Epub 31-Dic-2020. ISSN 1684-1824.
Introduction:
thyroid cancer represents 1% of the total of all kinds of cancer. Its incidence seems to increase 4% every year, and at the present time it is the eighth more frequent cancer in women. Diagnostic means are used to determine what patient undergoes a surgery and the therapeutic strategy to follow.
Objective:
to evaluate the results of the diagnostic means used in patients who undergo a thyroid cancer surgery.
Materials and methods:
a retrospective, descriptive, observational study was carried out including all patients who underwent a surgery of thyroid cancer in the service of General Surgery of the University Hospital ¨Comandante Faustino Perez Hernandez¨ in the period from January 1993 to December 2018. A form was elaborated to collect the information for the study of the database; the results were presented in charts of frequency, numbers and percentages.
Results:
the thyroid cancer was more frequent in the age group of 31 to 50 years; the female sex prevailed; the most frequent variety was the histological papillary one; ultrasound and fine needle cytology yield favourable results to define the biological stock of the thyroid cancers unlike the behaviour of the biopsy by freezing.
Conclusions:
thyroid cancer of the papillary variety is more frequent in relatively young, female patients. Ultrasound and fine needle cytology yield beneficial criteria to define the therapeutic behaviour.
Palabras clave : papillary carcinoma; ultrasound; fine needle citology.