Thyroid carcinoma in thyrotoxic patients treated surgery

ABSTRACT

The incidence of thyroid carcinomas in a series of 78 patients seen for thyrotoxicosis of any etiology was reported in this study. Surgical treatment for thyrotoxicosis was selected as the treatment of choice in 78 patients [25 with toxic diffuse goiter, 48 with toxic nodular goiter and 5 patients with toxic adenoma]. Thyroid cancer was found in six patients for a total incidence of 7.69% [one patient had toxic diffuse goiter with a percentage of incidence of 4% which was follicular carcinoma and 4 patients had toxic nodular goiter with a percentage of incidence of 8.3% and all had papillary carcinoma]. When a nodule was present in a toxic diffuse goiter, the possibility to face with malignant lesion reached 16.66% of the cases [one out of 6 cases]