the prevalence and progression of different thyroid tumors among patients referred to shahid sadughi hospital: 9 years follow-up study

Objective: the study evaluated the prevalence and progression of different thyroid tumors in patients who referred to shahid sadoughi hospital during 2005 to 2013, yazd, iran.materials and methods: in this retrospective followup study, cytopathological data of patients suffering from thyroid masses was collected during 20052013. age and sex of patients were recorded.results: totally, 2055 patients were evaluated in this study. the patients were between 2150 years old .among the patients, pathological types identified were as follow: 86.8% goiter, 5.8% inflammatory lesions, 3.2% follicular lesions, 3.5%papillary carcinoma and 0.8% follicular neoplasm. among 2055 patients, 91.7% were women and 8% were men. the frequency of thyroid nodules was increased from 2003 to 2013 with steep slope.conclusion: in total, regarding the current study, different kinds of thyroid tumors had growing trends in recent years and new plan and strategies are recommended to deal with this problem.