[Total thyroidectomy as the most frequent surgical procedure on the thyroid gland].

In 1997 and 1999 at the Second Surgical Clinic 35 patients with thyroid disease were operated. The authors reflect on the increasing radicality of operations from the aspect of the endocrinologist and surgeon. Extended surgical operations in relation to the original endocrinological indications are explained by the surgical finding and results of the histological examination.

[Thyroid gland surgery--principles of surgical technique and postoperative care in our department].

Views on the surgical procedure are not uniform. The authors summarise the basic principles of surgical technique and postoperative care in thyroid surgery, as used in their department. Attention is drawn to the possibility to use epidural anaesthesia in indicated cases.

[Peroperative endoscopic papillosphincterotomy].

The authors describe their experience with combinations of endoscopic and surgical procedures when dealing with stenoses of the papilla Vateri. They give a detailed account of the endoscopic phase of surgical intervention. In their opinion the most important thing is exclusion of duodenotomy which should reduce the risk of a duodenal fistula.