Clinical Study
The Clinical and Pathological Presentation of Thyroid Nodules in Children and the Comparison with Adult Population: Experience of a Single Institution
Table 7
Analysis of surgically treated cystic nodules.
| | | Histological diagnosis | | | Group 1 (age 3–20) | Group 2 (age 21–90) | | | | Not tumor | Adenoma | Carcinoma | | Not tumor | Adenoma | Carcinoma |
| | All nodules | 78 | 17 | 51 | 10 | 143 | 77 | 46 | 20 | | Cystic nodules | 36 | 10 | 24 | 2 | 57 | 29 | 23 | 5 | | Spongiform type cyst | 10 | 5 () | 5 () | 0 | 12 | 8 () | 4 | 0 | | Central type cyst | 19 | 3 () | 16 () | 0 | 25 | 9 () | 16 () | 0 | | Peripheral type cyst | 7 | 2 () | 3 () | 2 | 20 | 12 () | 3 | 5 () |
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The number of nondiagnostic cytologies.
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