Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer.

This report covers the authors' experience during 19 years with patients at Buenos Aires Municipal School of Oral, Cervical, and Thyroid Surgery at Rawson Hospital; at the Municipal Hospital of Oncology; and in their private practice. During this period, 165 patients underwent surgery for thyroid cancer. An analysis is made of the surgical treatments chosen, the different histological types encountered, and the lymph node and radical neck dissections performed. The advantages and drawbacks of total thyroidectomy, as well as the survival rates, are commented upon.