A Prospective Clinical Study Diagnosis and Management of Solitary Thyroid Nodule

Background: Clinically solitary thyroid nodule may be defined as a goitre which on clinical examination appears to be a single nodule in an otherwise normal gland. In reality, solitary thyroid nodule is not a single disease process but a constellation of processes encountered in a variety of clinical diseases such as dominant nodule of a multi nodular goitre, true adenoma, malignancy, thyroiditis and cyst. Aim: 1. To study the epidemiology, different clinical and pathological types of presentations in solitary thyroid nodule. 2. To study the management of solitary thyroid nodule. Material and Method: The study material consisted of 56 cases of solitary thyroid nodule who were admitted in General Surgery wards at SVRR Govt. General Hospital, Tirupati. Results: In this study, solitary thyroid nodule was more common in females and in the third and fourth decades of life. While FNAC revealed 87.5% of cases to be benign, histopathological examination revealed only 76.78% of cases to be benign and rest were reported as malignant.