This review describes the frequency of solitary thyroid nodules and their relationship to thyroid cancer. The importance of selecting patients appropriately for surgical excision is stressed. The factors predisposing to nodule formation and to a nodule being malignant are reviewed with emphasis that prior radiation exposure does not appear to increase the likelihood that a given nodule harbors ...

Pulmonary metastases from thyroid carcinoma typically cause a micronodular or miliary pattern throughout both lungs. Metastasis consisting of a solitary pulmonary nodule measuring 20 mm in diameter is rare. Here we report a case of a 66-year-old woman without a history of papillary thyroid carcinoma who presented with a pulmonary nodule measuring 20 mm in diameter, found on chest computed tomog...

Thyroid disorders are the most common endocrine disorder seen in clinical practice and solitary thyroid nodule is one of presentations disease. This study aimed at profiling cases with respect to incidence nodule, age, gender, benign malignant proportions set a clinically applicable approach evaluation management. prospective followed 30 over 2 years. It showed that almost 20 percent all nodule...

conclusions there was a statistically significance correlation between thyrads score and pathologic bethesda scoring system. decision making basis on the radiologic thyrads score can improve the radiological diagnosis precision in nodular goiter patients. results the mean age (± standard deviation) of patients was 44.5 (± 12.8 years). most of them were female 138 (83.6%). the frequency of final...

background: suppressive therapy with levothyroxine for reducing the size of thyroid nodules has not been really accepted. the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of levothyroxine on the size of benign thyroid nodules. methods: forty patients with confirmed benign nodule were randomly divided into two groups. group i received 50?g/day levothyroxin for six months but group ii did not t...

Thyroid scintigraphy is now rarely used in the work-up of a thyroid nodule except in the presence of a low TSH value. Therefore, autonomously functioning thyroid nodules (AFTNs) with a normal TSH value are diagnosed only in the rare medical centers that continue to use thyroid scan systematically in the presence of a thyroid nodule. In this review, we discuss the prevalence of AFTN with a norma...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the positive predictive value of a thyroid nodule being malignant when categorized as atypical, and to determine the prognostic implications of specific cytopathological features. DESIGN Retrospective review of consecutive patients undergoing thyroid surgery following fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules. SETTING Academic teaching hospital in Toront...

Nodules have been reported to be present in 50% of thyroids in autopsy series.1 Aminority of these thyroidnodules arepalpable, leaving a broad opportunity for discovery of incidental thyroid nodules through imaging tests performed for other indications, including carotid ultrasound and chest computed tomography. Indeed, detection of asymptomatic thyroid nodules as incidental findings on radiolo...

The thyroid nodule is a frequent cause of primary care consultation. The prevalence of a palpable thyroid nodule is approximately 4-7%, increasing up to 67% by the incidental detection of nodules on ultrasound. The vast majority are benign and asymptomatic, staying stable over time. The clinical importance of studying a thyroid nodule is to exclude thyroid cancer, which occurs in 5 to 10% of th...