[Surgical treatment of benign tumors of thyroid gland in children and adolescents].

In 1981-1998 years 552 children and juveniles were operated on for benign tumors of thyroid gland (TG). The enhancement of the revelation frequency of solitary and polynodous goiter and lowering of follicular adenoma and cystadenoma was noted. The tactics of children and juvenile patients with benign TG tumors was proposed, which included an early morphological verification of diagnosis, the puncture biopsy performance as well as intraoperative express-histological investigation. While solitary node in TG existence and preoperatively established its benign essence, extrafascial hemithyroidectomy, using original method, is the operative of choice.