AU - NAKHJAVANI, MANOOCHEHR AU - BASTANHAGH, MOHAMMAD HASAN AU - KASSAYAN, REZA AU - ESHTIAGHI, RADINA AU - ASADI, AFSAR AU - RAJAI, MOHAMMAD TI - A STUDY OF 765 CASES OF CLINICALLY SOLITARY COLD THYROID NODULES FROM AN IODINEDEFICIENT AREA PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - MJIRI JN - MJIRI VO - 7 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1420-en.html 4100 - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1420-en.pdf SO - MJIRI 3 ABĀ  - We studied the clinical, radioisotopic, and pathologic characteristics and the incidence of cancer in clinically solitary cold nodules of the thyroid in an iodinedeficient area. The study included retrospective analysis of 765 patients who underwent thyroidectomy for a clinically single cold nodule in a ten-year period. We compared the pathological findings with clinical data. In pathological examination, 34% of glands were multinodular. The incidence of nodular colloid goiters were 81.7% and of thyroid cancer 10.2%. Thyroid malignancy increased significantly after age thirty (p CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - MJIRI PG - 145 PT - Original Research YR - 1993