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1
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what is an enlarged, smooth , soft thyroid

A

simple diffuse goitre

2
Q

When is a thyroid bruit often present?

A

thyrotoxicosis

3
Q

What is a firm, diffuse, enlarged thyroid of variable size associated with?

A

Autoimmune thyroid disease - hashimotos thyroiditis and thyrotoxicosis

4
Q

Acute tenderness in diffuse swelling of the thyroid (sometimes with severe pain)

A

Thyroiditis

5
Q

What is the most common goitre in older people?

A

multi nodular goitre

6
Q

What is the most common cause of tracheal / oesophageal compression / laryngeal nerve palsy?

A

Multinodular goitre

7
Q

what are the causes of a solitary nodule?

A

Malignancy
cyst
benign

8
Q

What are the risk factors for thyroid malignancy?

A
  • irradiation

- longstanding iodine deficiency

9
Q

What are solitary toxic thyroid nodules associated with?

A

T3 toxicosis

10
Q

What is Reidel’s thyroiditis?

A

Reidel’s thyroiditis is fibrotic goitre —> raised inflammatory markers.

11
Q

What type of thyroid malignancy has 70% frequency, occurs in young people, has good prognosis and spreads locally and sometimes to lung and bone?

A

Papillary thyroid carcinoma

12
Q

What type of thyroid malignancy has 20% frequency, is more common in females and has metastes to lung/bone?

A

Follicular carcinoma

13
Q

What type of thyroid malignancy has 5 % frequency, is often familial and has a poor but indolent (painless) prognosis?

A

Medullary cell