Artigo
Tumores da glandula tireoide. Estudo retrospectivo de 130 casos com enfase especial em biopsia aspirativa, biopsia de congelacao e exame histopatologico
Fecha
1997-01-01Registro en:
Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia, v. 63, n. 5, p. 437-442, 1997.
0034-7299
2-s2.0-0030719375
6121068386940628
7528116925519142
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Resumen
The authors studied retrospectively 130 patients with thyroid tumors comparing the histopathologic diagnoses with fine needle aspirate (FNA) and frozen section results. FNA was performed in 118 patients with the following results: 75 (63.6%) benign, 21 (17.8%) malignant and 22 (18.6%) not conclusives. In seven cases false-negative result was obtained and there were six false-positive. These data reveals some drawbacks of this procedure. These results indicated that frozen as well as FNA are useful diagnostic procedure in helping to choose the most appropriate therapy in patients with thyroid tumors. On the other hand, traditional methods seems to be also important methods, such as scintilography, in the evaluation of thyroid diseases.