[1000 thyroidectomies--personal experience and results]

The authors made one thousand thyroidectomies in the course of five years. In the submitted paper they discuss indications, for surgery, the extent of the operations, the results of the histological findings. They describe the surgical procedure, required preoperative examinations and postoperative monitoring. They analyze different postoperative complications incl. their frequency in the discussed group. They emphasize a physiological surgical technique, verifications of the recurrent nerve, care of the parathyroid bodies and collaboration with endocrinologists.