A 44-year-old woman was self-referred for a growing right thyroid mass. Seven years before presentation, the patient was seen at another institution for a large right cystic thyroid nodule. By her ...

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 friend spots a swollen spot on your neck. What gives? Although they can be ...

When a thyroid nodule is discovered, an ultrasound of the thyroid can help in three ways: • It can help determine whether the nodule is really a mass in the thyroid. Sometimes a very irregular thyroid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of the endocrinologists I work with, John Palmer DO, recently saw a patient with a left-sided thyroid cyst.

Thyroid nodules are solid or fluid-filled lumps that form within your thyroid, a small gland located at the base of your neck, just above your breastbone. The great majority of thyroid nodules aren’t ...

A single session of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of symptomatic but benign solid thyroid nodules "appeared efficacious and safe" compared with hemithyroidectomy, researchers say ...

Large thyroid nodules in asymptomatic patients show malignancy and false-negative rates on fine needle aspiration (FNA) that are similar to those of small nodules, suggesting that nodule size alone ...

Most often the answer is no. You usually can’t feel thyroid nodules. Even though they happen from an overgrowth of cells, most thyroid nodules aren’t cancer. About 1 in 10 thyroid nodules turn out to ...

Your daughter's cyst sounds like a thyroglossal duct cyst. This is a defect which is present from birth but does not show itself until later in childhood, most commonly in preschools aged children or ...