Treatment of thyroid cancer.

dc.contributor.author	Adwok, J A
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-11T12:59:41Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-11T12:59:41Z
dc.date.issued	1994-08
dc.identifier.citation	East Afr Med J. 1994 Aug;71(8):524-6	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7867546
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31637
dc.description.abstract	The management of differentiated thyroid cancer remains controversial. A consecutive series of 234 thyroidectomies done by one surgeon in various Nairobi Hospitals from July 1990 to June 1993 were studied. 18 patients were operated on for thyroid cancer. The procedures ranged from lobectomy to total thyroidectomy. Young adults from 20-40 years of age were mainly affected, with a male/female sex ratio of 8:1. The immediate and subsequent morbidity of the operation of total thyroidectomy, in our opinion, overweighs its advantages of improved disease control. This is particularly so when low socio-economic standards lead to lack of compliance with replacement therapy.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher		en
dc.title	Treatment of thyroid cancer.	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Surgery, University of Nairobi	en