Post-operative Care and Post-operative Management of Benign Thyroid Disease
摘要
Advances in radiology and increased use of chest and neck imaging have led to increased discovery of asymptomatic incidentally detected thyroid nodules. The prevalence of nodules varies with different modalities, 2–6% with palpation, 60–65% with ultrasonography, 15% with computed tomography and 1–2% by position emission tomography. Although thyroid nodules are common as mentioned, the clinical significance is assessed by the presence of malignancy, compressive symptoms and thyroid dysfunction.