[Surgical diseases of the thyroid gland]

7264 patients with different thyreopathies have been analysed, as follows: Basedov's disease (446 = 6.13%), thyreotoxic adenoma (Plummer's disease - 974 = 14.4%), nodular struma (1077 - 14.82%), polynodular struma (3291 = 45.3%), Hashimoto's thyreoiditis (1476 = 20.31%). 2879 of them have been having indications of thyreotoxicosis 39.63%). Carcinoma has been found in 908 patients = 12.5%. In the different forms, carcinoma has been found in 5.15% of the cases of Basedov's disease, 5.03% of the cases of thyreotoxic adenoma, in 8.91% of the cases of nodular struma, in 12.57% of the patients with polynodular struma, and in 32.21% of the cases of Hashimoto's thyreoiditis. The relatively high percentage of carcinoma in Hashomoto's thyreoiditis turns the disease into precancerocis. The positions of the authors are ... concerning the operative treatment of each thyreopathy.