Sadia Alam, Aman-ur Rehman, Atika Masood, Ihteshamud Din Qureshi.
Histopathological Pattern of Thyroid Lesions.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(3):1091-2.

Background: Thyroid lesions are common in Pakistan and cause major concern because of possibility of malignancy in neoplastic lesions in young patients. Histopathological studies of thyroid swellings reveal different pattern of lesions in different regions of the world . Aim : To document the frequency of histopathological pattern of thyroid lesions presented to pathology department at Akhter Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore from year 20012-2017 . Method: All thyroidectomy specimens presented to pathology departments at AMDC (20 12-2017 ) were retrospectively reviewed and categorized according to their histological findings . Results: Sixty seven cases were enrolled in our study. The age of the patients ranged from 17 to 75 years. Male to female ratio was 1:4.5. Non- neoplastic cases were (86%) and neoplastic cases were (13 %). Benign category of the neoplastic group includes 5 cases (7. 5% of all cases, and 55% of neoplastic cases) and the malignant category includes 4 cases, representing 6 % of all studied cases and 45 % of the neoplastic category. Three cases ( 75 % of malignant) were of papillary carcinoma and one case was of follicular carcinoma (25 % of the malignant cases ). Conclusion: Among the varied histomorphological spectrum of surgical specimens of thyroid, the most frequent lesion is multinoduar goiter. Follicular adenoma is the commonest benign lesion while the most frequent thyroid cancer is papillary carcinoma.

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