Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: To assess the sensitivity and specificity of the cytomorphological method in the diagnosis of the nosological variant of nodal goiter.Materials and methods: A comparison of the results of cytological and histological studies of thyroid nodules in 36 patients (15 women and 11 men, average age 54.2±9 years), operated for nodular goiter. Cytological findings were divided into 4 categories: ‘non-informative material’, ‘benign les...