Evaluation of the Results of Repeated FNA in Patients with Nodular Colloid Goiter

Article is devoted to the relevance of the application of needle aspiration (FNA), as well as the feasibility of re (FNA) in patients with initially benign thyroid nodules. The study involved 120 patients who underwent FNA, the results of which were diagnosed nodular colloid goiter. During repeated FNA of patients with benign thyroid cytologic diagnosis changed in 16.6% of patients ( n = 20), and the conclusion from benign to “suspicious for malignancy” occurred in one patient (0.8%). Long-term observation of patients with initially benign conclusion leads to an increased number of repeat FNAs that not only beneficial in terms of funding, but uninformative, as the percentage identified of malignancies statistically insignificant. The above observation showed that the use of re-FNA in patients with proven benign thyroid nodules impractical even when data are available for the growth of the nodules and the change in concentration of TSH and regardless of age.