A COM-C mon disease. The incidence based on statistics from death certificates shows that the death rate in this disease is approximately one per lOO, OOO. 5 Of course, these figures do not show the prevalence of the disease among the living. This is unknown because published statistics vary so greatly. The reported occurrence of carcinoma in nontoxic nodular goiters varies from 3.6 to 17.1y0 and in solitary nodules from 9 to 33y0.1. 2943 6 These data concern only surgical patients and do not apply to the general population.
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