Consecutively operated patients - lesion 3 (videorecord)


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Data

Clinical presentation: A 39-year-old woman requested a second opinion. She has been known having a nodular goiter since childhood. A dominantly solid nodule in the left lobe has previously been categorized as Bethesda III (atypia of unknown significance). m99Tc scan showed multiple cold nodules in both lobes.

Palpation: both lobes were nodular on palpation.

Laboratory test: TSH 0.20 mIU/L, FT4 16.7 pM/L.

Lesion in question:

the largest nodule in the upper-middle third of the right lobe.

 

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