[Thyroid carcinomas. Critical study about 138 observations. Therapeutic deductions (author's transl)]

Between 1952 and 1973, 138 patients with thyroïd carcinoma have been recorded. From the critical study of these cases, the pathological, etiological and clinical features have been studied. Different therapeutic modalities are evaluated from these cases. Surgery was always used when possible. A hemithyroïdectomy was realised most often. We stress that sterilisation was obtained by 131I treatment in plurifocal metastasis, particularly in pulmonary metastasis, only when the iodine uptake was sufficient. Survival has been evaluated according to the pathology: papillary and vesicular carcinomas have a good prognosis (the papillary and vesicular survival rate at 10 years reaches respectively: 65% and 64%). Anaplastic carcinomas have a bad prognosis (the survival rate at 5 years is 18%, at 10 years, 0%. These results are similar to those published by differents authors. At the opposite, trabecular carcinomas have a very short survival (8% at 5 years, 7% at 10 years) which is very unusual in well differentiated thyroïd carcinomas. It has to be isolated from the others.