Disease Name
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Age of Onset
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Gender Preponderance
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Signs/Symptoms
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Imaging Feature(s)
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Macroscopic Feature(s)
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Microscopic Feature(s)
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Laboratory Findings(s)
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Other Feature(s)
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ECG view
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- More commonly affects women
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- Incidence increases with age
- More common in the 3rd to 4th decades of life
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- Both genders are affected equally
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- Single non-encapsulated mass
- Gray-tan color
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Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
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- More common among older individuals
- Mean age at diagnosis is 65 years
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- More commonly affects women
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Follicular Adenoma
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- More commonly affects individuals older than 50 years of age
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- More commonly affects women
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- Solitary nodule which may show echogenicity or not
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- Solitary, spherical, and encapsulated lesion
- Well demarcated from the surrounding parenchyma
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- Functional adenoma:
- Elevated T3, T4
- Decreased TSH
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- May be considered functional or hot
- May be considered non-functional or cold
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Multinodular Goiter
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- Commonly affects individuals older than 60 years of age
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- More commonly affects women
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Thyroid Lymphoma
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