He joined Argentine President operation to remove his thyroid cancer

A team of doctors today in a sanatorium on the outskirts of Buenos Aires began the operation to the President of argentina, Cristina Fernández, to cure him of a cancerous tumor in the thyroid gland, according to official sources cited by the press local.

Fernández, for 58 years, entered the operating room of Hospital Austral at 0830 hours (1130 GMT), where the surgeon Pedro SAC and collaborators practiced you complete removal of the thyroid, in whose right lobe was detected "papillary carcinoma".

Hundreds of militants from the Peronist front for victory led by the President remain with banners in the access to the southern Hospital, in the grounds of the eponymous private University on the outskirts of the city of Pilar, 60 km to the North of Buenos Aires, where to apply strict security measures.

Fernández had entered the sanatorium today around 7.00 hours (1000 GMT), accompanied by his sons maximum and Florence u000aKirchner, after passing the head of State to the Vice-President, Amado Boudou, who shall exercise it until 24 January next, when it concluded the license medical for the President.

Official sources indicated that the result of the operation will be announced in the next hours by presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro.

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