Introduction: Amongst all epithelial cancers of the thyroid, the papillary and folicular types are usually histologically differentiated and have a more favourable outcome compared to the undifferentiated tumours. The aim of our study is to evaluate the surgical treatment of differentiated thyroid neoplasms both in terms of surgical indication and type of surgery.
Material and method: The study was conducted on 1349 patients suffering from different thyroid diseases that requested surgery between 2005–2009, within the First and Second Department of Surgery Tg-Mures.
Result: There have been taken into account data regarding the demographic aspecs, the pre- and postoperative diagnosis, surgical indication and the type of surgical procedure according to the histological type.
Conclusions: Surgery has proven to be the most efficient therapy in the differentiated forms of thyroid cancer including different types of total/near-totally thyroidectomies, and partial thyroidectomy comes into question only in exceptional cases.