Predictive Factors of Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Findings Routinely Used in Diagnosing Thyroid Cancer (TIR-2009-01)

National Cancer Institute, Naples

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01074684

TIR-2009-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to describe the correlation between the cytohistology exam of patients undergoing thyroid surgery, and the predictive values of: suspicious clinical findings, preoperative thyroid imaging, and the incidence of thyroid cancer in cytologically negative nodes.

Enrollment: 959 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consecutive patients presenting for thyroid disease (palpable nodules)
• Indication for surgery
• Age > 18 years
• Signed informed consent for surgery
• Signed informed consent for data collection

Exclusion criteria

• Concurrent condition that contraindicates surgery
• Clinical or radiologic evidence of locally advanced tumor
• Clinical or radiologic evidence of metastatic lymph nodes or distant metastases
• Nonpalpable nodes