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Abstract
Thyroid cancer is the sixth most common cancer in women. Thyroid nodules are clinically important as the represent thyroid carcinoma. Multinodular goitre is the majority of thyroid cancer and solitary nodule represent a significant risk. Recent studies showed increased incidence of thyroid carcinoma.
Thyroid nodules prevalence has increased and about 10-15% are malignant. Careful assessment of thyroid nodules should be done by clinical examination, thyroid profile, neck ultrasonography and FNABC. Solitary nodules and multinodular goitre can be managed surgically with hemithyroidectomy or total thyroidectomy, L-T4 suppressive therapy and radioactive iodine.
In this study our aim was to evaluate the incidence of thyroid carcinoma in patients with thyroid nodules in our hospital attended to surgical oncology outpatient who diagnosed with benign nodular goitre and indicated for hemithyroidectomy or total thyroidectomy and also, clinical factors and subtypes of thyroid carcinoma. Our sample was 81 patients who had clinical, laboratory and ultrasonography assessment for thyroid nodule.