Zaldívar RFR, López LJA, Hurtado-López LM

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 92-94
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ABSTRACT

Objective: To inform the incidence of cancer in the thyroid nodule.
Setting: Third level health care hospital.
Design: Retrospective, transversal, descriptive study.
Patients and methods: We reviewed the clinical records of 1,038 patients subjected to surgery due to thyroid pathology in the General Surgery Ward of the General Hospital of Mexico City during 5 years, of which 630 manifested clinically as thyroid nodules. We analyzed the following variables: A) Independents: age, gender, radiation and thyroid cancer antecedents, size and location of the nodule, evolution time; B) Dependent: Histopathologic diagnosis.
Results: Four hundred twenty-five nodules corresponded to benign pathology (67.5%) and 205 (32.5%) to cancer, average age was 43 years, median of 42, mode of 52, and SD ± 16.4. The most frequent cancer was papillary carcinoma (86.6%), followed by follicular (6.8%), medullar (5.9%), and lymphoma (0.5%).
Conclusion: The clinical presentation of a single thyroid nodule is becoming more frequent, with increasing malignancy. Papillary cancer (86.6%) was the most frequently found through histopathology.

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