Randomized prospective evaluation of frozen-section analysis for follicular neoplasms of the thyroid

Annals of Surgery
R UdelsmanJ L Cameron

Abstract

To evaluate the clinical utility of frozen section in patients with follicular neoplasms of the thyroid in a randomized prospective trial. The finding of a follicular neoplasm on fine-needle aspiration prompts many surgeons to perform intraoperative frozen section during thyroid lobectomy. However, the focal distribution of key diagnostic features of malignancy contributes to a high rate of noninformative frozen sections. The series comprised 68 consecutive patients with a solitary thyroid nodule in whom fine-needle aspiration showed a follicular neoplasm. Patients were excluded for bilateral or nodal disease, extrathyroidal extension, or a definitive fine-needle aspiration diagnosis. Final pathologic findings were compared with frozen sections, and cost analyses were performed. Sixty-one patients met the inclusion criteria. Twenty-nine were randomized to the frozen-section group and 32 to the non-frozen-section group. In the non-frozen-section group, one patient was excluded when gross examination of the specimen was suggestive of malignancy and a directed frozen section was diagnostic of follicular carcinoma. Frozen-section analysis rendered a definitive diagnosis of malignancy in 1 of 29 (3.4%) patients, who then underwent a...Continue Reading

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