The risk of cancer in endemic multinodular goitre
Nmadu, P.T.; Mabogunje, O.A.
Central African Journal of Medicine 37(8): 242-244
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-9176 PMID: 1807796 Document Number: 382613
From 1971 to 1985 at the Ahmadu Bello University Hospital, Zaria, 245 patients with multinodular goiter were operated upon mostly for cosmesis. Clinically unsuspected malignancy was present in 50 (20 pc) of the resected specimens of which 26 were follicular and 20 papillary. This pattern conforms with the reports from other African Zones of endemic goiter where the frequency of cancer is lower in the clinically solitary nodular goiter. Thus, the management strategy ought to regard the multinodular goiter as pre-malignant and operations should be performed earlier on this account.