Table 2.

Preoperative indication for surgery and postoperative final histology results

	Group 1 (preoperative nonmalignant diagnosis) n = 45	Group 2 (preoperative malignant diagnosis) n = 110	Total n = 155
Indication for surgery
Graves’ disease	35	0	35
Compression syndrome	7	0	7
Autonomous thyroid nodule	3	0	3
Suspicion for differentiated thyroid carcinoma	0	77	77
Suspicion for medullary thyroid carcinoma	0	2	2
Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (proven)	0	10	10
Prophylactic thyroidectomy	0	10	10
Nodular goiter after chemo-/radiotherapy	0	4	4
Completion thyroidectomy	0	7	7
Postoperative final histology—primary diagnosis
Benign diagnoses	41	61	102
Nodular goiter	11	49	60
Graves’ disease	27	0	27
Follicular adenoma	3	5	8
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis	0	1	1
Normal lymph node tissue	0	2	2
Normal thyroid tissue	0	1	1
C-cell hyperplasia	0	1	1
Huerthle cell adenoma	0	1	1
Hemangioma thyroid	0	1	1
Malignant diagnoses	4	49	53
Papillary thyroid carcinoma	4	38	42
Follicular thyroid carcinoma	0	2	2
Medullary thyroid carcinoma	0	7	7
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma	0	2	2
Postoperative final histology—secondary diagnosis
Nodular goiter	2	2	4
Graves’ disease	3	0	3
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis	3	13	16
C-cell hyperplasia	0	4	4
Normal thyroid tissue	0	1	1
No secondary diagnosis	37	90	127