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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Koutelidakis, I.
• Laskou, Styliani
• Kapoulas, S.
• Kalaitzis, S.
• Papadakis, G.
• Evangelatos, P.
• Galanis, I.
• Papaziogas, V.
• Makris, I.

Titel

Incidental thyroid cancer in patients undergoing total thyroidectomy for benign disease

Ist Teil von

• Hellenic journal of surgery, 2015-07, Vol.87 (4), p.307-308

Ort / Verlag

Vienna: Springer Vienna

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Aim To determine the frequency of incidental thyroid carcinoma (ITC) in patients undergoing surgery for presumably benign thyroid diseases. Methods A total of 267 patients submitted to total thyroidectomy were included in the study. Results Histology revealed ITC in 31 (11.6%) patients. Papillary carcinoma was the commonest ITC at a percentage of 71% (22/31 patients), while follicular variant accounted for 29%. ITC was more common in patients with toxic goitre and toxic solitary nodule. Conclusions The result of this study show a high incidence of ITC (11.6 %). The frequency differs among patients presenting a different thyroid pathology. This is because of the small sample used in the study. Papillary carcinoma was the commonest ITC.