1Professor, Department of General Medicine, SreeBalaji Medical College & Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai
*Corresponding Author: Padma V, Professor, Department of General medicine, SreeBalaji Medical College & Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, AgharamRoad, Selaiyur, Chennai-73. E-mail. padmaramesh86@yahoo.com
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
Thyroid swellings or nodule can present as both mutlinodular and solitary nodular goitre. A discrete swelling in an otherwise impalpable gland is termed as solitary nodule of thyroid. Prevalence ranges from 4% to 10% in general adult and 0.2 to 1.5% in children. The study was done SreeBalaji Medical College & Hospital from June 2017 to October 2018 in the department of Generalsurgery.incidence of carcinoma in solitary nodular goitre (6.66%) is more than multinodular goitre (20%).the peak age incidence of solitary nodular goitre is 30–40 years. It is found from this sequence that 6.66 per cent of the solitary thyroid nodules are benign with females.
Thyroid Nodules, Evaluation, Risk
