title: Incidence of thyroid carcinoma in a common surgical practice: the problems.
abstract: Over a two-year period, seven hundred twenty-three operations for thyroid disease were performed in the department of endocrine surgery on 717 patients; 7.1% of these patients had neoplastic lesions. If we consider only the solitary nodules, the incidence is 8.8%; while it is only 5.0% in patients with diffuse goiter. In 27.5% of the cases of thyroid neoplasm, peroperative analysis on thyroid tissue is falsely encouraging; yet, on the whole, such analysis reassures 98% patients. Preoperative fine needle aspiration and cytology--of little impact in that series--can bring interesting informations in particular circumstances, while keeping in mind that microscopic diagnosis of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid is histological and not cytological.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrine Surgery, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Squifflet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mourad
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery