Analysis of 550 cases of thyroid nodule
Keywords:
thyroidAbstract
The authors select 550 cases with preoperative
diagnosis of solitary or dominant thyroid nodu/e out
of a review of c/inical folders of patients who had
undergone surgery for thyroid patho/ogy The aim
of this study is to show the usefulness of
imagenological studies and cytology in the
diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodu/es.
Out of the 550 cases, 51 O had undergone sean
and 269 ultrasonography 75% of the nodu/es (327)
appeared as co/d in the sean and 58% (156) were
so/id in the US. Most of these were benign (87%).
Although 79% of the carcinomas appeared as cold
and 68% as so/id, 73% of the benign nodu/es were
cold in the sean and 56% were so/id in the US.
This shows high sensitivity of these studies,
greater than 90%, but a very low specificity lower
than 14%, and thus very low capacity far surgery
selection.
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