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Monday, January 7, 2013

Papillary carcinoma

MOST COMMON, associated with prior neck irradiation and psammoma bodies, spreads to LYMPHATICS
Question: Surgery for papillary carcinoma?
Answer: Lobectomy for < 1cm, Total for > 1cm, multicentric, previous XRT, (MRND if in nodes or out of thyroid tissue) 
Question: What is lateral aberrant thyroid?
Answer: ectopic neck thyroid tissue that is usually metastatic papillary carcinoma
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