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

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.