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Us shows thyroid w mild heterogenous echo pattern and posterior to the inferior aspect of right lobe a parathyroid cyst. what does this all mean?

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Dr. Edgar Mendizabal answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Lamb,: If your calcium is normal, you are healthy, perhaps suffering from thyroiditis, very easy to treat. Have your TSH measured too.

Answered 6/10/2014

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