Management of the solitary cold thyroid nodule. A prospective study |
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| Authors: | M Sami Khalifa A Nur S Al Sarrag M Al Sayed |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Surgery, Sabah & Al Jahra Hospital, Hawalli, Kuwait. |
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| Abstract: | Forty-six patients with single cold thyroid nodules (SCTN) were studied prospectively to evaluate radio-iodine scans and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) as outpatient and preoperative diagnostic modalities and frozen section (FS) and paraffin section (PS) as excisional biopsies. In our series FNAB has a reasonable sensitivity (75%), good specificity (87%), a low positive predictive value of 38% and a high negative value of 97%. It has a false negative rate of 2.3% and a false positive rate of 56%. |
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