Incidence of Malignancy in Egyptian Patients with Cold Thyroid Nodule(S): Retrospective Study | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 72, Issue 2, July 2018, Page 3867-3872 PDF (277.44 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2018.9062 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Mohamed Atta Hassanain Swelam, Seleim Saeed Abd Elrahman Elnemr, Ahmed Mohamed EL-Sayed | ||||
| Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: 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%). Aim: 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. Materials and Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusion: 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%). | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Incidence of malignancy; Cold; THYROID; nodule(s); Retrospective study | ||||
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