[Personal experience with surgical treatment of thyroid diseases in childhood and adolescence].

The authors present their experience with operations of goitre in children and adolescents. The great majority of patients was indicated by the paediatric department of the Endocrinological Institute in Lubochna. In the course of 16 years at the surgical department of the hospital and policlinic on Dolný Kubín and in the Central Military Hospital in Ruzomberok 57 patients aged 12-18 years were operated.