From July 1999 to July 2000, in Military Hospital 103 there have been 459 patients with thyroid diseases undergoing surgical treatment. The rate of postoperative respiratory insufficiency was 2.6% (1.4% of 288 patients with Basedow's disease; 3.6% of 28 patients with simple goiter, 1.6% of 128 patients with benign tumor of the thyroid; 33.3% of 15 patients with thyroid cancer). Some factors related to respiratory insufficiency after surgical treatment of thyroid diseases are the type of thyroid disease, mixed goiter, big goiter, goiter with symptoms of pressing on neck's organs and recidivous goiter.
Thyroid diseases ; Respiratory Insufficiency ; diagnosis ; surgery ; therapeutics

36 patients with spontaneous hydropneumothorax treated in the Hospital 103. Study concerned on general indices, age, gender, propesion, BMI, smoking habit, alcolism, onset point, chronic pathology of lung, clinical signs, the development of disease, functional symptoms - dyspnea, pain of chest; physical symptoms - Guilliard's trial; parachimical examinations, conventionalchest X ray. CT scanning has a high value in classication of pneumothorax lavel and in determination of the causes. Endoscopic of the lung membrane cavity has also therapeutic role. The method is safe and efficacious with few complication
Pneumothorax ; Endoscopy ; Patients ; surgery ; Therapeutics ;