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[Management of the thyroid nodule. Preliminary results of a practice survey of 685 general practitioners and specialists].
The authors present the preliminary results of a mailed survey of policies for the management of thyroid nodules (TN). This survey involved 685 general practitioners and specialists and was carried out at the initiative of APNET (National Educational Association for Training in Therapeutics) with the aid of ANDEM (National Agency for the Development of Medical Evaluation). Twelve percent of responders (13.1% among GPs) declare that they do not manage TNs. Those have been excluded from the analysis. The answers taken into account come from general practitioners (n = 179), endocrinologists (n = 233), specialist surgeons (n = 64), ENT practitioners (n = 93) and nuclear medicine practitioners (n = 26). The average number of patients with TN seen in a year varies according to the specialty: 6 a year for GPs, 30 in ENT, 89 for endocrinologists, 105 for surgeons. This survey reveals a number of common position: 1) the therapeutic attitude must be customized according to clinical findings and to complementary tests; 2) prescriptions are homogeneous as regards radionuclide scanning (technetium or iodine), TSH assays, ultrasonography and T4 assays; 3) ultrasonography is used in first intention; 4) ultrasonography has limitations, and is regarded by a majority or responders as unable to provide information about benignancy or malignancy. Conversely, responses are much more variable about a number of points: 1) the use of fine needle aspiration cytology which is mainly used by endocrinologists and nuclear medicine practitioners; 2) the management of nodules discovered on ultrasonography: the attitude is different from that adopted with palpable nodules for endocrinologists, surgeons and nuclear medicine practitioners, and identical for most general and ENT practitioners; 3) the usefulness of a suppressing treatment with thyroid hormones. Both general practitioners (47%) and, even more so, specialists (84%) are aware of these differences in practices. Faced to this situation, 69% of specialists are in favor of establishing consistent practices, but a minority (42%) only think that it is possible. Thus recommendations about practices may be useful only if they are adapted to the type of practice and to the conditions of access to complementary tests, and they should be aimed at rationalizing management rather than making it consistent.
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