Résumé
Background: this study was to evaluate the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule[s] after total thyroidectomy and histopathlogical analysis and the final result in our study was the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule[s] was [20%]
Aim: the aim of the work was to evaluate the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule either solitary thyroid nodule or dominant cold nodule in multi-nodular goiter through retrospective study
Materials and Methods: the study was carried out on 30 Egyptian patients suffering from cold nodule[s] in the thyroid gland. Patients were managed at Al- Azhar University hospital; Cairo; Egypt. The study was controlled retrospectively. Ethical approval from the local Ethics Committee of Surgery Department was obtained
Results: according to the descriptive statistics of our study, the total number of cases was thirty patients, twenty-six of them were females and four were males, also the mean age of studied group was [37.87]. The final results of post-operative histopathological examination were twenty-four cases diagnosed as benign and six malignant cases
Conclusion: in this retrospective study the final results of histopathological examination were 24 benign cases [80%] and 6 cases were malignant [20%]. So in our study the incidence of malignancy in Egyptian patients with cold thyroid nodule[s] was [20%]