The operated thyroid - Case 11. Insignificant lesions in a resected lobe

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Left lobe, longitudinal scan. The lobe is composed of hypoechogenic and hyperechogenic circumscribed areas. These lesions are not only of no oncological significance, but they do not meet the criteria of a nodule of pathological sense. Keep in mind that surgical procedure has lifelong consequences on the structure of the remnant of a thyroid lobe. Fibrotic changes, changes in the vascularization, clipping of small arteries, the surgical thread itself - all of these cause changes in the structure and therefore in the echostructure of the lobe. 
Using the phrase "nodule" in such cases may cause great and absolutely unnecessary fear to the patient.