Table 2.
Pathological diagnoses
| Total thyroidectomy (n = 91) |
Hemi-thyroidectomy (n = 213) |
Completion thyroidectomy (n = 38) |
Total (n = 342) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malignancies | ||||
| Papillary | 50 (54%) | 22 (10%) | 12 (32%) | 84 (25%) |
| Follicular | 1 (1%) | 11 (5%) | 2 (5%) | 14 (4%) |
| Poorly differentiated | 1 (1%) | 1 (0.5%) | – | 2 (1%) |
| B-Cell lymphoma | – | 1 (0.5%) | – | 1 (0.3%) |
| Renal cell carcinoma | 1 (1%) | – | – | 1 (0.3%) |
| Goiters | ||||
| Multinodular goiter | 16 (18%) | 73 (34%) | 9 (24%) | 98 (29%) |
| Diffuse goiter | 1 (1%) | 5 (2%) | 1 (3%) | 7 (2%) |
| Endocrine diseases | ||||
| Graves’ disease | 8 (9%) | 1 (0.5%) | – | 9 (3%) |
| Hashimoto’s thyroiditis | 7 (8%) | 10 (5%) | 1 (3%) | 18 (5%) |
| Other benign pathology | ||||
| Follicular adenoma | 4 (4%) | 65 (31%) | 1 (3%) | 70 (20%) |
| Thyroid cyst | – | 5 (2%) | – | 5 (2%) |
| Not otherwise specified | 2 (2%) | 19 (9%) | 12 (32%) | 33 (10%) |