The Relationship between Clinic Pathological Characteristics and Follicular Thyroid Lesion

Abstract

Study was done in the period between (2015-2017) in biology department in college of Education for pure science /Ibn Al-Haitham at Baghdad University and in Pathology department /college of medicine at Al-Nahrain University.The study was retrospectively designed.The clinicopathological parameters were obtained from patients’ admission case sheets and pathology reports (age, gender).The presents study included 120 patients having thyroid nodules, classified according to results of histopathology into 4 groups, 30 patients within each; the first group included patients with follicular adenoma, the second group included patients with follicular carcinoma, the third group included patients with follicular variant of papillary carcinoma (FVPC) and the last group included patients with follicular hyperplasia.The ratio of male to female in case with follicular carcinoma was 1:4,in case with follicular variant of papillary was 1:2.33, in case with follicular adenoma was 1:5 and in case with follicular hyperplasia.