Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: After ethics approval, a review of the thyroid database at Monash University Endocrine Surgery Unit was performed. Data was obtained for the period September 1994 to August 2012 and identified those patients who underwent total thyroidectomy (n = 1,898). Those patients with known or suspected malignancy were excluded from the study (n = 390). The remaining patients (n = 1,508) were divided into 3 groups: Graves' disease (n = 250), toxic multinodular goiter (MNG; n = 295), and nontoxic MNG (n = 963) based on indication for surgery and thyroid status. Data were analyzed for the presence of malignancy in each group. RESULTS: Of the 1,508 patients included in the study, 96 (6.4%) had thyroid cancer, and the incidence of PTC was similar between the 3 groups. There were 16 cases (6.4%) in the Graves' group, 48 cases (5%) in the nontoxic MNG group, and 20 cases (6.8%) in the toxic MNG group (P = .41). CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Jessica Preece, Simon Grodski, Meei Yeung, Michael Bailey, Jonathan Serpell |
Journal | Surgery
(Surgery)
Vol. 156
Issue 5
Pg. 1153-6
(Nov 2014)
ISSN: 1532-7361 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 25151553
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Carcinoma
(epidemiology)
- Carcinoma, Papillary
- Female
- Graves Disease
(epidemiology)
- Humans
- Incidence
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Retrospective Studies
- Thyroid Cancer, Papillary
- Thyroid Neoplasms
(epidemiology)
- Thyrotoxicosis
(epidemiology)
- Victoria
(epidemiology)
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