Enlarged Thyroid Gland with Normal Thyroid Function Tests
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Enlarged thyroid gland with normal thyroid function tests.
A 41-year-old woman had a 1to 2-cm asymptomatic thyroid mass, which had been monitored by an endocrinologist for several years with serial sonography. Noting that it had enlarged in the face of normal thyroid function tests, the endocrinologist ordered a fine-needle aspiration biopsy, which showed a cellular follicular lesion. Although some of the nuclear changes seen in papillary carcinoma wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0899-8280,1525-3252
DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2008.11928388