2015 Volume 144 Pages 78-79
The 126 patients were surgically treated for thyroid tumors in our hospital between April, 2002 and July, 2013. Female patients were more frequent than males. In 66.7% of the cases the tumors were benign (adenomatous goiter was the most frequent) and malignant tumors accounted for 33.3% (papillary carcinoma was the most frequent). There were patients who had no subjective symptoms, when their thyroid tumors were discovered incidentally during a routine medical examination. In fine needle aspiration cytological diagnosis, the sensitivity value was 96.0% and specificity value was 84.2%, and accuracy value was 87.1%. In TNM classification, 71.4% of the cases comprised T1 and T2. N1 accounted for 52.4% and N0 for 47.6%. Among those patients with malignant tumors, 2 died. The remaining 40 patients are alive at present. Recurrence was found in 6 cases.
