What is considered a large thyroid nodule

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      Medullary thyroid carcinoma accounts for 5% to 10% of thyroid cancers and may present as a thyroid nodule or neck mass. Typically, aspirates from a medullary thyroid carcinoma are hypercellular, composed of large, poorly cohesive cells, and are predominantly spindle shaped.

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      Solitary thyroid nodules are found in 4% to 9% of patients by clinical examination, and in 22% or more of patients by ultrasound in the United States; most are benign (13). Therefore, rather than operating on every patient with a thyroid nodule, the physician or surgeon should select patients for surgery who are at high risk for thyroid cancer.

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    • Goiters: Abnormally Large Thyroid Glands

      Thyroid scan is applied to autonomously functioning nodules and FNA to all the other nodules either cystic or solid or mixed. Fig. 18-3. Scintiscans of thyroid. The scan on the left is normal. A typical scan of a "cold" thyroid nodule failing to accumulate iodide isotope is shown on the right.

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