Authors: Pablo Zoroquiain Javiera Torres Ignacio Goñi Lizzet Fernández Antonieta Solar
Publish Date: 2012/06/26
Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 168-171
Abstract
A 24yearold woman with no personal or family history of thyroid malignancy presented with an asymptomatic solid nodule on the right lobe A thyroid ultrasonography revealed a 2cm irregular solid and vascularized nodule on the right lobe An ultrasoundguided fine needle aspiration FNA was then performed and the cytological findings were consistent with medullary carcinoma A preoperatory evaluation neck ultrasound was negative for malignant lymph nodes and calcium and calcitonin blood levels were normal The patient then was admitted for a total thyroidectomy without lymph node dissection procedure After 2 years of followup the patient is asymptomatic normocalcemic and with a neck ultrasound without remarkable findings
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