On the issue of surgical treatment of highly differentiated thyroid cancer. Case reports

Abstract

The article discusses the modern surgical tactics of treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer, with an emphasis on organ-preserving operations. The clinical cases in which preoperative diagnostics was not able to reveal the extent of tumor spread are presented. Non-radical surgical tactics in such situations inevitably leads to repeated surgery that is performed against the background of ongoing cancer progression, in which case the patient may be at a higher risk of recurrence than s/he would be with a timely radical operation and therefore may require further treatment.