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Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Visualization in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Published on: June 9, 2023
Surgical treatment of recurrent differentiated thyroid carcinoma
Andrea Dávila-Cervantes1, Rosa Gamino, Ofelia González
1Department of Surgery, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Objective:
To describe our experience of treating recurrent thyroid carcinoma.
Design:
Retrospective study of casenotes.
Setting:
Teaching hospital, Mexico.
Subjects:
20 patients who developed recurrences of 273 who presented with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma between 1991 and 1999.
Main Outcome Measures:
Presentation, management, morbidity, and mortality.
Results:
There were 18 men and 2 women, median age 51 years (range 28-75). 13 were treated initially by total thyroidectomy and 7 with less than total resection. 16 were given ablative doses of 311I. The median time between initial resection and recurrence was 3 years (range 1-6). The sites of recurrence were cervical lymph nodes (n = 12), thyroid bed (n = 3), or both (n = 5). During a median of 3 years 10 patients were free of disease and 2 had died.
Conclusions:
Well-differentiated thyroid cancer usually recurs in the cervical lymph nodes. Further resection offers a high cure rate.
