Incidence of Malignancy in Egyptian Patients with Cold Thyroid Nodule(S): Retrospective Study
Journal Title: The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 72, Issue 2
Abstract
<span>Background</span><span>: this study was to evaluate the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule(s) after total thyroidectomy and histopathlogical analysis and the final result in our study was the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule(s) was (20%).<br /> </span><span>Aim: </span><span>the aim of the work was to evaluate the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule either solitary thyroid nodule or dominant cold nodule in multi-nodular goiter through retrospective study. </span><span>Materials and Methods: </span><span>the study was carried out on 30 Egyptian patients suffering from cold nodule(s) in the thyroid gland. Patients were managed at Al- Azhar University hospital; Cairo; Egypt. The study was controlled retrospectively. Ethical approval from the local Ethics Committee of Surgery Department was obtained.<br /> </span><span>Results: </span><span>according to the descriptive statistics of our study, the total number of cases was thirty patients, twenty-six of them were females and four were males, also the mean age of studied group was (37.87). The final results of post-operative histopathological examination were twenty-four cases diagnosed as benign and six malignant cases.<br /> </span><span>Conclusion: </span><span>in this retrospective study the final results of histopathological examination were 24 benign cases (80%) and 6 cases were malignant (20%). So in our study the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule(s) was (20%).<br /> </span>
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Eman Helal
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- DOI 10.21608/ejhm.2018.9062
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