Consecutively operated patients - lesion 105 (videorecord)

Data

Clinical presentation. A 75-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of a mild hyperthyroidism. Scintigraphy revealed multiple nodules, none of them functioned autonomously. Methimazole therapy was started 5 weeks before the present examination.

Palpation. Both lobes were greatly enlarged and nodular. None of the nodules was suspicious.

Laboratory test: TSH 0.01 mIU/L, FT4 6.56 pM/L, FT3 3.07 pM/L on daily 40 mg methimazole.

Lesion in question:

a nodule in the right lobe.