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Endocrine & MetabolicMild
Thyroid Nodule
General Surgery · Endocrine & Metabolic
Mild
Severity
Very common — detectable on ultrasound in up to half of adults, though the large majority are benign
Prevalence
No
Contagious
General Surgery
Specialist
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💊Treatment Options
- 1Evaluation typically includes thyroid ultrasound
- 2thyroid function blood tests
- 3and fine-needle aspiration biopsy for nodules with suspicious features to determine whether they are benign or malignant. Benign nodules are often simply monitored with periodic ultrasound
- 4while nodules that are large
- 5growing
- 6or biopsy-confirmed to be cancerous are surgically removed
- 7sometimes along with the entire thyroid gland. Radioactive iodine or thyroid hormone suppression therapy may be used in select cases.
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