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Case #1 -
A 32 year old woman with a thyroid nodule

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
4.) How will you work up this patient?

Diagnostic evaluation:

Laboratory: TSH

Imaging studies - role very limited:

      Sonogram - cystic versus solid

      Scan in hyperthyroid patients

Fine needle aspiration - possible results:

      Benign

      Malignant

      Non-diagnostic with paucity of follicular cells

      Suspicious or indeterminate - a follicular neoplasm

 
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