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COURSE on THYROID ULTRASOUND

Section 6 Advanced courses

Part 2 The operated thyroid

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Operated thyroid - case 15

Clinical data: A 61-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of nodular goiter. She underwent on bilateral subtotal thyroid resection for 27 years because of a multinodular goiter. She noticed a slowly increasing (over decades) mass in the right thyroid. She had already difficulties in swallowing.

Palpation: Both thyroids were nodular on palpation.

Laboratory data: euthyroidism on daily 112.5 microgram levothyroxine (TSH 1.08 mIU/L). 

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