Morphologic relationships between thyroid carcinoma and associated thyroid lesions in thyroidectomized patients. Comparison between 60 malignancies and 40 non-malignant goiters.

ABSTRACT

Given the endemic goiter in Romania, the authors sought to evaluate the morphologic prognostic factors with histogenetic implications in the development of thyroid cancer. On this purpose, the morphologic factors that correlate the type of thyroid cancer to the host stromal alterations were studied on 3 groups of 20 patients each and 2 control lots for multinodular goiter and nodular goiter. One group consisted of cases of thyroid carcinoma associated with endemic goiter, the second group included cases of thyroid carcinoma with thyroiditis and nodular goiter and the third group, the cases of thyroid sclerosing occult carcinoma. The study showed in all the cases, that thyroid cancer evoluates as an autonomic lesion, independent of the endemic goiter which is not a risk factor.