The solitary thyroid nodule. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems
Cagetti, M.; Nicolosi, A.; Pintus, M.; Deriu, I.P.
Minerva Medica 75(14-15): 791-793
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4806 PMID: 6728234 Document Number: 231455
The records of 93 patients who underwent surgery for solitary thyroid nodule were reviewed. It is emphasized no findings or diagnostic studies currently available which are sufficiently specific to differentiate benign from malignant lesions. All solitary nodules should be removed by excision of the involved thyroid lobe followed pathological examination: operative complications are rare.