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Trattamento chirurgico del carcinoma midollare della tiroide. Esperienza personale
2007
Introduction: Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC) is a rare malignancy of the parafollicular C cells of the thyroid gland. Aim of our study is reporting retrospective analysis of our experience about the surgical treatment of MTC, especially pointing on limphadenectomy. Patients and methods: from January 2000 to March 2006, were performed 546 thyroidectomy, 6 of them for MTC (1.09%): 5 sporadic and 1 familiar. All the patients were operated with standard technique (total thyroidectomy) and submitted to endocrinologic and instrumental follow-up. Results: in our experience, we do not registered early or late complications as bleeding, laryngeal nerves lesions and parathyroid lesions or intra-po…