Abstract: Thyroid nodules are a very frequent pathology of thyroid gland and mostly they are benign. Their prevalence varies according to the method we use to detect them. When we use ultrasound prevalence varies from 5-68 %. Ultrasound is safe, painless easy to performed, fast and non-invasive medical test to detect thyroid nodule.
Objective: To see the incidence of thyroid nodule and thyroid cancer detected by ultrasonography in outpatients healthy individual.
Material and methods: This retrospective study is done at American Hospital during 1 October 2014 until 30 December 2014.We included 700 healthy adult outpatients. Exclusion criteria included age under 18 years old, history for thyroid disease, thyroid cancer or previous thyroid surgery. We performed conventional thyroid ultrasound in all patients by using transducer 10-13 MHz. The presence and the size of the nodules were than correlated with age and gender. We separated solitary thyroid nodules into two subclasses: ≤10 mm and ˃10 mm.
Results. Thyroid ultrasound was performed in 700 participants and from them 584 (83, 4%) were females and 116 (16, 6%) were males. Mean age was 45,1 years old ±12,65 SD range from 18 -76. Thyroid nodules were present in 36.2% (238/700) with ratio female/male 7:1. From the 238 participants with nodules, solitary nodules were present in 57.1% of them and multinodular goiter were present in 42,9%. Incidental thyroid nodules were detected in 29, 3% (34 out of 116) of males and in 34,9% (204 out of 584) of females . Females had a higher frequency of nodularity than men (p<0.001). For solitary nodules and MNG females had a higher frequency than males respectivetly 81.6% versus 18.4%, and 91,1% versus males 8,9 %. For nodules over 10 mm females showed a prevalence of 26.1% and males 20% (p=0.284), but without a significant gender difference. For nodules less than 10 mm female showed a prevalence 73,8% and males 80%.
Conclusion: Our date showed that thyroid nodules were very common findings almost 36.2%.
The thyroid nodules were more common in women than in men. The number of cases with thyroid cancer was lower.
Keywords: thyroid nodule, thyroid cancer, ultrasound.
Title: Thyroid Nodule and Thyroid Cancer Incidentally Detected by Ultrasonography in Adu+Lts Outpatients with Unknown Thyroid Disease
Author: Entela Puca, Blertina Olldashi, EmaLumi, Sonila Bitri, Elizana Petrela, Thanas Fureraj, Agron Ylli
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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