TY - JOUR T1 - A STUDY OF 765 CASES OF CLINICALLY SOLITARY COLD THYROID NODULES FROM AN IODINEDEFICIENT AREA TT - JF - MJIRI JO - MJIRI VL - 7 IS - 3 UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1420-en.html Y1 - 1993 SP - 145 EP - 150 N2 - 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 M3 ER -