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Management of the solitary cold thyroid nodule. A prospective study
M Sami Khalifa1, A Nur, S Al Sarrag
1Department of Surgery, Sabah & Al Jahra Hospital, Hawalli, Kuwait.
International Surgery
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
Forty-six patients with single cold thyroid nodules (SCTN) were studied prospectively to evaluate radio-iodine scans and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) as outpatient and preoperative diagnostic modalities and frozen section (FS) and paraffin section (PS) as excisional biopsies. In our series FNAB has a reasonable sensitivity (75%), good specificity (87%), a low positive predictive value of 38% and a high negative value of 97%. It has a false negative rate of 2.3% and a false positive rate of 56%.
