[Thyroid carcinoma as cystic nodule. The diagnostic role of cytology by needle aspiration].

195 patients affected by a cystic thyroid lesion were studied by a Fine Needle Aspiration biopsy (FNAb). 42 patients were operated on account of clinical data, compressive phenomena or cytologic results suggesting a neoplasia. Out of the operated patients, 3 were affected by a carcinoma in the cystic lesion (one "pure" cystic nodule and two "mixed" ones), while three more patients with multinodular goiters showed a carcinomatous lesion in a nodule different from the cystic one.

[Comparison of the results of surgery and radiotherapy in 175 cases of T2 glottic carcinoma: 116 operated and 59 irradiated cases].

The results were analyzed of 175 patients with glottic squamous cell carcinomas who were treated with curative purposes (1970-1986). One hundred and sixteen of them underwent surgery at the Otolaryngology Department of the University of Florence, and 59 were treated by radiation therapy at the Florence University and Hospital Departments of Radiotherapy. In the surgical series 78 cases were treated with radical surgery and 38 with conservative surgery.