[Benign surgical thyroid pathology in our milieu. Correlation between exploratory tests and anatomopathology]

In our milieu, Dr. Peset Hospital, Valencia, we have collected between 1979 and 1998, a total amount of 683 thyroidectomies. Between them 101 carcinomata and 582 bening thyroid pathology. In this work are studied the bening pathology treated surgically. 86.4 percent were women and 13.6% men. Middle age 45 years. By complementary explorations, echography the solid single node by 41.9 percent of cases and solid numerous nodes by 34.7% were the more important findings found. By gammagraphy with greater frequency discovered a cold single node by 44.2% of cases. Anatomopathological types more frequently found were single hyperplastic node (13.3%), multiple hyperplastic nodes (27.6%), spreading hyperplasy (9.1%) and follicular adenoma (37.4%). The aim of this work is the comparative study of findings of complementary explorations with the anatomopathological results gained through the surgical pieces.