The operated thyroid - Case 20. (ultrasonographic picture 2)

A previously operated patient with a newly developed Graves' disease


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Upper part of the right lobe, longitudinal scan. Again a very specific pattern of an operated thyroid. The retraction between the hypoechogenic parts or the invagiantion of the echonormal peripheral rim to the hypoechogenic central part is a very common phenomenon in an operated thyroid.

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