A 44-year-old woman was self-referred for a growing right thyroid mass. Seven years before presentation, the patient was seen at another institution for a large right cystic thyroid nodule. By her ...

June 20, 2003 — Ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) is safe and effective for the treatment of thyroid cystic nodules, according to two presentations on June 19 at the 85th annual ...

You’re fiddling with a necklace when suddenly you notice a lump near the base of your throat. Or perhaps you’re yawning and a friend spots a swollen spot on your neck. What gives? Although they can be ...

When a thyroid nodule is discovered, an ultrasound of the thyroid can help in three ways: • It can help determine whether the nodule is really a mass in the thyroid. Sometimes a very irregular thyroid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 26-year-old female was referred by her primary care physician for the evaluation of thyroid nodules. During a ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(7):384-394. In our opinion, PEI should be proposed as first-line therapy only for symptomatic, recurrent cystic nodules. For other types of nodules, PEI should ...

An epidermal inclusion cyst — also known as an epidermoid cyst, infundibular cyst, keratin cyst, or inclusion cyst — is the most common type of cutaneous cyst. Patients present with a nodule that is ...

Pancreatic cysts are fluid-filled sacs that can form in the pancreas. Some remain benign, while others have the potential to develop into pancreatic cancer. A recent study, which followed 257 patients ...

Eruptive vellus hair cysts were first described in 1977 by Esterly et al in the case of 2 children with a hyperpigmented monomorphous papular eruption of several years’ duration. 1 Since then, various ...