title: [Course studies in patients with cytologically inconspicuous, decreasingly accumulating struma nodes].
abstract: In 100 patients with inconspicuous findings of a thin-needle puncture of the thyroid gland after 2 years a clinical and cytological after-examination was performed. All test persons were primarily recommended a treatment with thyroid hormone. During the control in no case references to malignant process of the thyroid gland were the result, so that the puncture cytology also retrospectively showed a high exactness. Meanwhile 16 test persons had been strumectomized, in which cases the present histological findings always showed only regressive changes. The clinical after-examination confirmed former results so that also in decreasingly and not accumulating struma nodes a conservative approach is not promising a success. In 12 patients by application of hormones of the thyroid gland the struma had completely receded.
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013963:Thyroid Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D013965:Thyroidectomy
chemical_list: D013963:Thyroid Hormones
vernacular_title: Verlaufsuntersuchungen bei Patienten mit zytologisch unauffälligen vermindert speichernden Strumaknoten.