Management of the solitary cold thyroid nodule. A prospective study.
Forty-six patients with single cold thyroid nodules (SCTN) were studied prospectively to evaluate radio-iodine scans and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) as outpatient and preoperative diagnostic modalities and frozen section (FS) and paraffin section (PS) as excisional biopsies. In our series FNAB has a reasonable sensitivity (75%), good specificity (87%), a low positive predictive value of 38% and a high negative value of 97%. It has a false negative rate of 2.3% and a false positive rate of 56%.
Sami Khalifa
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Department of Surgery, Sabah & Al Jahra Hospital, Hawalli, Kuwait.
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Al Sarrag
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Al Sayed
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D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology