The Need for Completion Thyroidectomy in Cases of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

There are no definitive criteria for the presence of malignancy in the opposite lobe in cases of unilateral lobectomy due to a thyroid mass in which the malignancy was diagnosed histologically. Study design is retrospective, cross sectional study. The present study included patients who underwent a...

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Published in:Indian journal of otolaryngology, and head, and neck surgery and head, and neck surgery, 2019-10, Vol.71 (Suppl 1), p.82-87
Main Authors: Veyseller, Bayram, Yenigun, Alper, Aksoy, Fadlullah, Meric, Aysenur, Ozturan, Orhan
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Language:English
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Head and Neck Surgery
Health risk assessment
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
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Otorhinolaryngology
Thyroid cancer
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Summary:There are no definitive criteria for the presence of malignancy in the opposite lobe in cases of unilateral lobectomy due to a thyroid mass in which the malignancy was diagnosed histologically. Study design is retrospective, cross sectional study. The present study included patients who underwent a lobectomy in our clinic between 2001 and 2016 with an initial diagnosis of atypia with undetermined significance or suspected malignancy according to fine-needle aspiration biopsy and adult patients who received a thyroidectomy based on thyroid cancer detected in pathological examinations. Tumor histopathological diagnosis, tumor size, and capsular, vascular, or lymphatic invasion were assessed in patients who received thyroid lobectomy. The presence of a multifocal tumor (52.3%) significantly increased the risk of malignancy in the opposite lobe over the risk association with a unifocal tumor (8.9%; p  
ISSN:2231-3796
0973-7707
DOI:10.1007/s12070-017-1083-8