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Of course, nobody really understood the significance of this at the time.
I could keep the thing in the trap. I ran my tongue over his skin, a quick, tentative movement.
This evidence supports the opinion that incidental nodules do not require US assessment unless the patient also has risk factors and clinical findings that are suspicious for malignancy [ 14 , 19 , 24 ]. There are a number of features on US that are suggestive of a malignant thyroid nodule. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. The patient should be lying supine and the neck in a slightly hyper-extended position to fully expose the anterior neck. Additional diagnostic features such as halo, colloid, calcification and vascular patterns are also discussed in detail. However, the nodule is hypo-echoic with an echo signal close to the adjacent strap muscle.