prevalence of thyroid nodules diagnosed by ultrasonography has been reported to be high (about 50%) probably due to iodine deficiency in our region. most thyroid nodules benign but some require treatment for cosmetic reasons or subjective symptoms. the conventional method of treatment in iran is surgery. for the first time in iran, from february 2016, 50 patients with 63 nodules (solid or cysti...

background:speech is the most important communication tool and is the smooth product of four systems: respiratory, phonatory, resonatory, and articulatory. currently, a variety of voice disorder occurred because of life style and environmental pollutants. vocal nodule is one of the most prevalent disorders in this category. considering the point that the air required for vocal cords vibration i...

Thyroid nodules occur frequently, are more common in women, and the incidence increases with age for both sexes. Clinically normal thyroid glands commonly contain nodules in autopsy series. In 20to 50-year-old females, as high as 50% of the thyroid glands are nodular, whereas in males the incidence approaches 30% (I). When the prevalence of clinically palpable thyroid nodules was the objective ...

OBJECTIVE After thyroidectomy hypocalcaemia is the most significant complication for clinicians. In this study, we investigated the factors associated with development of hypocalcaemia after thyroidectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We investigated the patients prospectively for age, gender, preoperative diagnosis, hormonal status, operative time, operating surgeon, existence of parathyroid gland ...

Introduction: This is a prospective study of patients treated for a solitary toxic nodule with a fixed dose of radioiodine ( I) and followed for at least 1 year in Mashhad, north east of Iran. 131 Methods: We evaluated 780 patients who presented to the university hospital of Ghaem during a 7-year period because they had at least one thyroid nodule. We found hot thyroid nodules in 95 (12%) patie...

Determining the change in the pulmonary nodule size is a critical measurement for cancer diagnosis and therapy evaluation. In this study, an image-processing method that quantifies the nodule volume change based on computed tomography (CT) images is proposed. The proposed method consists of the following four steps: CT image interpolation, pulmonary region segmentation, nodule extraction, and n...

Appearance of a thyroid nodule has become a daily occurrence in clinical practice. Adequate thyroid nodule assessment requires several diagnostic tests and multiple medical appointments, which results in a substantial delay in diagnosis. Implementation of a high-resolution thyroid nodule clinic largely avoids these drawbacks by condensing in a single appointment all tests required for adequate ...

BACKGROUND In lung cancer screening, a nodule management protocol describes nodule assessment and thresholds for nodule size and growth rate to identify patients who require immediate diagnostic evaluation or additional imaging exams. The Netherlands-Leuvens Screening Trial and the National Lung Screening Trial used different selection criteria and nodule management protocols. Several modelling...