title: A clinico-pathological study of 100 patients with solitary 'cold' thyroid nodules.
abstract: One hundred consecutive patients were studied at the Auckland Hospital thyroid clinic over a two year period 1974 to 1976, who subsequently had surgical excision of a solitary cold nodule. Thyroid carcinoma was present in 17 percent, adenoma in 44 percent, colloid nodules in 25 percent and a thyroid cyst in 14 percent. Although thyroid neoplasms were significantly more frequent in patients under 40, other clinical or scan features analysed were not predictive of carcinoma or neoplasm.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy