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155 patients (6 %) were operated on for "miscellaneous" reasons. The female:male

ratio was smaller in GD (4,2:1) and greater ίπ MNG (6/9:2,1).

From the total number of patients 226 were diagnosed to have thyroid cancer (8,7 %).
One hundred seventy three (76,5 %) were females and 53 (23,5%) were males. From

those, 147 (65%) had papillary, 32 (14,2%) follicular, 21 (4,3%) medullary, 16(7,1 %)
anaplastic and 10 (4,4 %) other types of thyroid carcinoma.

One hundred forty three patients (63,3 %) underwent total thyroidectomy while the
rest subtotal. Ιπ 33 (14,6%) patients enlarged Iymph nodes were also found. Ιn 14 out
of 99 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and proved to be papillary cancer,

the carcinoma was multifocal, while ίn 10 % of cases capsule was found. Similar
capsule was found ίn 24 out of 32 cases (75 %) with follicular carcinoma.

Thirty-four out of 83 patients (43%) who underwent less than total thyroidectomy,
were reoperated on, 1-3 months after the first operation.

Eighty-nine patients received radioactive iodine therapeutically immediately after

their ορeration. Twenty-five of those had a supplementary dose 3-40 months after
the first one. Ιπ order to investigate the trends of thyroid cancer, we divided ουΓ

patients ίπ 2 groups. The first consisted from patients who underwent surgery during
the first decade (1979-1939) and the second during the second decade (1990-2000),

in the first decade 1304 patients underwent thyroidectomy, while in the second 1283.
The incidence of thyroid cancer in the first decade was 6,4% (83 cases) while ίn the

second decade 11,1% (143 cases). However, it has to be mentioned that 68% of our
patients underwent total thyroidectomy during the second decade in comparison with

56% of the first decade and also that the accumulative incidence of papillary and
follicular carcinoma was simίlar between the 2 decades. We compare ουr data and

also data concerning surgical complications and survival incident with similar
presented in the literature, so far.

2. Supranutritional dose of vit C and vit D combat free redicals and oxidative in a rat

liver ischemia reperfusion injury model.

Kontos N, Giakoustidis D, Iliadis S, Koliakou N, Papageorgiou G, Pantelidis K,
Skarlatos C, Karanikas M, Christakis C.

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