Incidental Thyroid Carcinoma Diagnosed after Total Thyroidectomy for Benign Thyroid Diseases: Incidence and Association with Thyroid Disease Type and Laboratory Markers

Table 1

Arrangement of patients after preoperative diagnosis and co-existence of thyroid cancer and CLT.

Diagnosis	No. of patients	TC	CLT
STN	34	11 (32.4)	7 (20.6)
NTMG	152	21 (13.8)	38 (25.0)
TMG	26	0 (0.0)	7 (26.9)
Τoxic adenoma	6	0 (0.0)	2 (33.3)
Graves’ disease	10	1 (10.0)	2 (20.0)
Total	228	33 (14.5)	56 (24.6)

TC: thyroid cancer; CLT: chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis; STN: nontoxic solitary thyroid nodule; NTMG: nontoxic multinodular goiter; TMG: toxic multinodular goiter.
Data were expressed as frequencies and percentages (%).