Thyroid nodules are common in medical practice. To establish the predictive values of diagnostic tests we studied prospectively the results obtained from physical examination, aspiration cytology, scintigraphy, ultra-sonography and pre-operative serum thyroglobulin in 110 patients operated and compared them with the results obtained from surgical pathology specimens. We found 124 lesions in the 110 patients: 106 (85%) benign and 18 (15%) malignant. The benign were 90 simple goiters (73%), 8 follicular adenomas (6%), 4 thyroglossal cysts (3%) and 4 other […]