Indications for surgical treatment in benign thyroid disease
| Autor: | I. Kostoglou-Athanassiou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Thyroid nodules
endocrine system medicine.medical_specialty endocrine system diseases business.industry General surgery Graves' disease Thyroid disease Thyroid Nodule (medicine) Malignancy medicine.disease Multinodular goitre eye diseases medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Radiology medicine.symptom business Thyroid cancer |
| Zdroj: | Hellenic Journal of Surgery. 87:18-23 |
| ISSN: | 1868-8845 0018-0092 |
| Popis: | The treatment of thyroid cancer involves surgery. However, treatment of benign thyroid disease is debatable. Goitre should be treated by surgery if malignancy is suspected and if there are compressive signs and symptoms. Similarly, true recurrence of goitre should be treated surgically in the case of suspected malignancy and in the case of compressive symptomatology. Thyroid nodules should also be treated surgically if there is suspicion of malignancy and if there are compressive signs and symptoms. Surgery for the treatment of Graves’ disease is indicated in the case of suspected malignancy within a thyroid nodule and in the presence of Graves’ ophthalmopathy. In conclusion, indications for surgical treatment in benign thyroid disease are the suspicion of malignancy, compressive signs and symptoms, and the presence of Graves’ ophthalmopathy in Graves’ disease. |
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