Evaluation of Risk Factors for Malignancy in a Solitary Thyroid Nodule

The incidence of thyroid cancer continues to rise worldwide, mostly as a result of increased use of diagnostic imaging modalities and surveillance tools. Thyroid cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women in the USA and an estimated of over 62000 new cases occurred in men and women in 2015. The aim of this work is to evaluate the predictability of different preoperative clinical findings compared to postoperative pathological data of malignancy in patients presenting with Solitary Thyroid Nodules.