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If someone has thyroid symptoms, and thyroid drugs don't work, is a partial lobectomy advised?
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What symptoms?: Hyperthyroid symptoms that do not respond to enough antithyroid medicines can be treated with radioiodine or surgery - though usually more than just apartial lobectomy.
Answered 3/19/2014
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