[Scintigraphically detected "hot" thyroid nodules in the specimens from patients of the Thyroid Disease Clinic in Gda'nsk--clinico- histopathological analysis].

A group of 153 patients with scintigraphically detected autonomic "hot" nodules of the thyroid has been subjected to clinical and histopathological analysis. Substantial part of these patients (30.1%) had hyperthyroidism, partly (in 19.9% of cases) in the form of the thyrocardiac syndrome. A most frequent histopathological lesion found within "hot" nodules was follicular adenoma. The occurrence of malignancy in the form of highly differentiated thyroid carcinoma was observed in 2.6% of cases. The incidence of thyroid carcinoma within "hot" nodules was in our material only two and half times smaller than in a previously analyzed group of patients with "cold" nodules of the thyroid.