Abstract:
Objective To find out the frequency of various types thyroid carcinomas and their management in a tertiary care hospital of Karachi. Study design Descriptive case series. Place & Duration of study Department of General Surgery, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, from June 2014 to May 2019. Methodology All patients with well differentiated thyroid carcinoma and medullary thyroid carcinoma were included in the study. Patients with anaplastic carcinoma were excluded. Written and informed consent were taken from the patients and data was recorded on a pre-designed form. Two hundred and thirty-eight patients were included in this study. One-fifty-eight patients were female and eighty male with female to male ratio of 2:1. Papillary carcinoma was found to be the most frequent thyroid carcinoma encountered (n=188 - 79.41%) followed by follicular and medullary carcinoma, 26 (10.50%) and 24 (10.08%) respectively. Various surgical procedures were done to deal with these malignancies, that included completion thyroidectomy (n=138 - 57.9%), completion thyroidectomy with modified radical neck dissection (n=10 - 4.20%), total thyroidectomy (n=31 - 13.02%), total thyroidectomy plus modified radical neck dissection (n=47 - 19.74%) and modified radical neck dissection (MRND) alone in 12 (5.04%) patients. Papillary carcinoma was the most common thyroid malignancy encountered. Conclusions Frequency of medullary carcinoma was found almost equal to the follicular carcinoma.
Page(s):
186-190
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Journal of Surgery Pakistan, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Year: 2019
Keywords:
Thyroid carcinoma
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Follicular thyroid carcinoma
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Thyroidectomy
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Papillary thyroid carcinoma