Data
Clinical presentation. In a 46-year old woman a thyroid nodule was discovered on routine physical examination. The patient's sister had had papillary thyroid cancer. The patient was told by the first ultrasonographer that she harbors a suspicious nodule.
Palpation: a moderately firm nodule in the upper part of the right lobe.
Laboratory test: TSH 4.71 mIU/L, FT4 13.0 pM/L, aTPO 109 U/mL.
Lesion in question:
the nodule in the left lobe.