Monday, March 31, 2008

Clinical manifestations of thyroid cancer

Clinical manifestations in children [more] to thyroid mass treatment, the tumor alone, the number of minority or both, of a hard, realm unclear, activities of the poor. Small tumors can be smaller than 1 cm, mainly v. cervical lymphadenopathy and attendance; larger accompanied cystic changes, often misdiagnosed as benign thyroid disease. Occasionally to hoarseness, breathing or swallowing difficulties or even paralysis syndrome cervical sympathetic to the main appeal. About more than half of newly diagnosed patients with cervical lymph node metastasis has occurred, double accounted for 18% of cervical metastasis. Because no early symptoms, so from the lymph nodes to visit from time to longer has a few years to. In addition to the neck, lung is the most common site of metastasis can be no clinical symptoms, X-ray examination showed it miliary tuberculosis-like shadow, mainly in the basal. Other sites include mediastinal shift, long bones, skull and axilla, and occasionally there are functional cancer symptoms of hyperthyroidism.

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