BACKGROUND: Although in recent years our knowledge of pathogenesis and natural history of @entity259 has widely increased, there is not accordance among authors in the field of surgical treatment of well-differentiated @entity5 . In fact the extension of the @entity5 resection and modality of cervical lymph-nodes dissection show questions not easy to answer. METHODS: From 1985 to 1994, in our Surgical Institute, 128 cases of well-differentiated @entity259 , out of 1346 nodular thyreopathies, were operated on. We have considered some factors as anamnestic thyreopathy, familiarity, symptoms, US and scyntigraphic factors, fine-needle aspiration cytology and surgical option. The surgical treatment consisted of 99 total thyroidectomies (with or without cervical lymph-nodes dissection) and 18 lobus-isthmectomies. Surgical morbidity was 0.7% for permanent @entity3746 , 9.3% for @entity261 and 1.4% for permanent @entity261 . RESULTS: The 5.8-year survival rate was 92.9%. Fifty-four @entity1 were in Stage I, 35 @entity1 in Stage II, 27 in stage III and 4 in Stage IV. Histological patterns showed the prevalence of papillary type (63.3%) over follicular type (36.7%). CONCLUSIONS: The aggressive surgical approach in well-differentiated @entity5 , supported by complementary postoperative therapies, leads to a good control of the disease

[Multifactorial prognostic analysis in the surgical treatment of well differentiated XXXX ].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['thyroid tumours', 'tumours', 'tumour'] @entity261 :: ('MESH:D007011', 'Disease') :: ['transient hypoparathyroidism', 'hypoparathyroidism'] @entity3746 :: ('MESH:D014826', 'Disease') :: ['vocal cords palsy'] @entity259 :: ('MESH:D013964', 'Disease') :: ['thyroid cancer']
@entity259 :: (MESH:D013964,Disease) :: ['thyroid neoplasms']
