IS THE HEMITHYROIDECTOMY JUSTIFIED AS STA NDARD OPERATION IN SUSPICIOUS FINE-NEEDLE CYTOLOGY

Since 1989, the operative treatment of 65 patients with suspicious fin e-needle aspiration cytology of solitary thyroid nodules has been deci ded on individual clinical criteria such as the patient's history and morphology of the remaining thyroid tissue. Finally, 9 carcinomas were seen amongst 37 hemithyroidectomy specimens, out of 28 resected thyro id glands 2 werde papillary microcarcinomas, whereas the others were b enign specimens up until now. Despite a comparatively low perioperativ e morbidity of the hemithyroidectomy, we see thyroid resections justif ied in cases of suspicious cytology.