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Thyroid Nodules 2006: Managing what has been known for over 50 years

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Jeffrey R. Garber

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The 50th anniversary of the publication of Mortensen, Woolner and Bennet’s paper entitled Gross and microscopic findings in clinically normal thyroid glands has just passed. 1 Their paper reported that at autopsy at the Mayo Clinic approximately half of those not known to have thyroid disease pre-mor­tem had thyroid nodules …

Thyroid nodules – Stepwise diagnosis and management

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Stergios A. Polyzos, Marina Kita, Avraam Avramidis

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Thyroid nodules are common in clinical practice. They may be solitary within a “normal” thyroid gland or dominant within a multinodular goiter. The incidence of thyroid nodules has been on the rise in recent decades, mainly due to the wider use of neck imaging. Therefore, the incidental finding of a thyroid nodule in an asymptomatic patient is not rare…