Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 44-year-old woman was self-referred for a growing right thyroid mass. Seven years before presentation, the ...

THE possibility that the mechanical action of neck muscles can, in rare cases, sever a projecting portion of the thyroid gland has been recognized for over fifty years. 1 This process is most likely ...

Medically reviewed by Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD Key Takeaways Thyroid nodules are common and are not cancerous 95% of the time ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

There were 31 males and 88 females with a mean age (±SD) of 46.6 ± 12.8 years (range, 10–74). The echographic pattern of the lesions was predominantly cystic lesion in 110 cases (92.4%) and simple ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In 2005, a 67-year-old woman with hypertension was referred to the endocrine clinic for a thyroid nodule found ...

Thyroid nodules may be cystic, colloid, hyperplastic, adenomatous or cancerous. The majority of thyroid nodules are benign and they are often asymptomatic. There may be a single thyroid nodule ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’re fiddling with a necklace when suddenly you notice a lump near the base of your throat. Or perhaps you’re yawning and a ...

BOSTON -- Location of a thyroid nodule may help predict whether or not it's malignant, researchers reported here. In a late-breaking abstract presented at the annual meeting of the American ...

Doctors may recommend a biopsy to obtain a sample from a thyroid nodule. Testing the sample in a laboratory can help indicate whether the nodule is cancerous or benign. Though most tend to be benign, ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(7):384-394. Financial Disclosure: This work was supported by grants of Ministero della Salute and of MURST (COFIN 2004) to S Filetti. Support by the "Fondazione ...

A thyroid nodule is a lump that can develop in your thyroid gland. It can be solid or filled with fluid. Thyroid nodules are relatively common and rarely cancerous. Your thyroid is a small ...