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22 Thyroid Flashcards

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Embryological origin of thyroid

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1st and 2nd pharyngeal arches

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Origin of superior thyroid artery

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First branch off external carotid

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Origin of inferior thyroid artery

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Of thryocervical trunk

Supplies both the inferior and superior parathryoids

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Ima artery

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From innominant or aorta
Supplies the thyroid isthmus
1% of patients

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Superior and middle thyroid veins drain to:

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Internal jugular vein

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Inferior thyroid vein drains to:

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Innominante vein

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Superior laryngeal nerve

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Motor to cricothyroid muscle
Runs lateral to thyroid lobes
Runs close to superior thyroid artery
Injury - loss of projection and easy voice fatigability

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Recurrent laryngeal nerve

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Motor - all of larynx except cricothyroid muscle
Runs posterior to thryoid lobe in tracheoesophageal groove
Can run with inferior thyroid adrtery
Left RLN - around aorta; Left LLN - around innominate artery
Injury - hoarseness; bilateral injury can obstruct airway

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Liagment of berry

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Posterior medial suspensory ligament close to RLNs

Needs careful dissection

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Peroxidases

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Link iodine and tyrosine together

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Deiodinases

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Separates iodine from tyrosine

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12
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Most sensitive indicator of thyroid gland function?

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TSH

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Tubercules of Zuckerland

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Most lateral, posterior extension of thyroid tissue
Rotate medially to find RLNs
Leave behind in a subtotal thyroidectomy

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Post-thyroidectomy stridor

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Incisional hematoma (open neck and remove emergent)
Bilateral RLN injury (emergent tracheostomy)
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Thyroid storm

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Sx: Tachycardia, fever, numbness, irritability, vomiting, diarrhea, HOCF
Undiagnosed Graves’ disease
Precipitants - anxiety, excessive gland palpation, adrenergic stimulants
Tx: B-blockers, PTU, Lugol’s solution, cooling blankets, oxygen, glucose

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16
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Wolff-Chaikoff effect

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High doses of iodine (Lugol’s solution, potassium iodide) - inhibits TSH action on thyroid and inhibits organic coupling of iodide.
Results in less T3 and T4 release.
Transitory effect.

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17
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Best initial test for asymptomatic thryoid nodule?

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FNA

Thyroid function tests

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Thyroid FNA shows: Follicular cells

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Lobectomy (10% CA risk)

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Thyroid FNA shows: THyroid cancer

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Thyroidectomy or lobectomy

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Thyroid FNA shows: Cyst fluid

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Drain fluid

If recurs or is bloody - lobectomy

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Thyroid FNA shows: collid tissue

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Most likely to be a colloid goiter - low chance of malignancy (<1%)
Tx: thyroxine, lobectomy if it enlarges

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Thyroid FNA shows: normal thyroid tissue and TFTs are elevated

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Solitary toxic nodule
Tx:
- Asymptomatic can monitor
- Symptomatic - PTU and 131I

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23
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Thyroid FNA shows: Indeterminant

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Get radionuclide study

  • Hot nodule - PTU and 131I if symptomatic
  • Cold nodule - lobectomy
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Goiter

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Any abnormal enlargemetn
MCC - iodine deficiency
Operate if airway compression or suspicious nodule
Tx: subtotal or total thyroidectomy

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25
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Substernal goiter

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Usually secondary - vessels originate from superior and inferior thyroid arteries
Primary - rare, vessles originate from innominate artery

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Mediastinal thyroid tissue

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Inferior extension of normally placed gland

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Lingual thyroid

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Thyroid tissue that persists at foramen cecum
Sx: dysphgia, dyspnea, dysphonia
2% malignancy risk
Tx: thryoxine suppression, abolish with I131

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Thyroglossal duct cyst

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Moves upward with swallowing
Risk for infection and malignancy
Tx: Sistrunk procedure (remove midportion of hyoid bone with thyroglossal duct cyst)

29
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Treatment for young patients, small goiters and mild T3/T4 elevations?

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Propylthiouracil

Methimazole

30
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Treatment for pregnant patients?

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PTU

31
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PTU (thioamide)

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Inhibits peroxidases, inhibits peripheral conversion

AE: aplastic anemia, agranulocytosis

32
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Methimazole

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Inhibits peroxidases

AE: creatinism, aplastic anemia, agranulocytosis

33
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Radioactive iodine (131I)

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Poor surgical risk or unresponsive to PTU

CI - children, pregnancy

34
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Graves disease

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Exophthalmos, pretibial edema, afib, heat intolerance, thirst, increase appetite, weight loss, sweating, palpitations
IgGG antibodies to TSH receptor
Dx: decreased TSH, increased T3/T4; increased 123I uptake, diffusely
Tx: Thioamides, 131I, thyroidectomy

35
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Operating on graves disease?

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Indication - suspicious nodule, non-compliant patient, recurrence after medical therapy, children, pregnancy (not controlled with PTU)
Preop prep - PTU until euthyroid, B-blocker, Lugol’s solution (decrease friability and vascularity)
Op - bilateral subtotal or total thyroidectomy

36
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Toxic multinodular goiter

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Women, >50yo
Sx: tachycardia, wt loss, insomnia, airway compromise (can be precipitated by contrast dye)
Hyperplasia secondary to chornic low-grade TSH stimulation
Tx: Surgery (subtotal or total thyroidectomy), 131I if elderly and frail

37
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Single toxic nodule

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Women, younger, usually >3cm if symptomatic, functions autonomously
Dx: Thyroid scan (hot nodule)
Tx: Thioamides and 131I, lobectomy if medical tx infeffective

38
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Hashimoto’s

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Hyopthyroidism
Enlarge gland, painless, chronic thyroiditis
History of childhood XRT
Humeral and cell-mediated autoimmune disease (microsomal and thyroglobulin antibodies)
Tx: Thyroxine, partial thyroidectomy if continues to grow, nodules appear or compression symptoms

39
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Bacterial thyroiditis

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Contiguous spread from URI
normal thyroid function test, fever, dysphagia, tenderness
Tx:
- ABX
- Lobectomy (R/O cancer for unilateral swelling)
- Total thyroidectomy (persistent inflammation)

40
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DeQuervain’s Thyroiditis

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Hyperthyroid > hypothyroid
Viral URI precursor
Elevated ESR
Tx: Steroids, ASA
- Lobectomy (R/O cancer for unilateral swelling)
- Total thyroidectomy (persistent inflammation)

41
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Riedel’s fibrous stomra

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Woody, fibrous compartment - invasive
Need biopsy to R/O CA/lymphoma
Compression symptoms
Tx:
- Steroids, thyroxine
- Isthmectomy or trachesotyom for airway symptoms
- RLNs at great risk if resected
42
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Thyroid nodule - worrisome for malignancy

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Solid
Solitary
Cold
Slow growing
Hard
Male
Age >50yo
PRevious neck XRT
MEN IIa or IIb
43
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Follicular adenoma

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Colloid, embryonal, fetal
No increased cancer risk
Lobectomy to prove it is an adenoma

44
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Papillary thyroid carcinoma

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Best prognosis
Childhood XRT
Lymphatic spread first - but prognosis based on local invasion
Pathology - psammoma bodies, oprhan annie nuclei

45
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Treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma - minimal/incidental (<1cm)

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Lobectomy

46
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Treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma - Bilateral lesion, multicentricity, history of XRT, positive margins or tumors >1cm

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Total thyroidectomy

47
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Treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma - clinically positive cervical ndoes

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Ipsilateral MRND

48
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Treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma - extrathyroidal tissue involvement

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Ipsilateral MRND

49
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Treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma - metastatic disease, residual local disease, positive LN or capsular invasion

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131I

4-6 weeks after surgery

50
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When do you use XRT in treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma?

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Unresectable disease not responsive to 131I

51
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Enlarged lateral neck lymph node with normal-appearing thyroid tissue?

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Papillary thyroid CA with lymphatic spread
Total thyroidectomy and MRND
131I 4-6 weeks after surgery

52
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Follicular thyroid carcinoma

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Hematogenous spread - bone
FNA shows follicular cells
Tx: Lobectomy
- Adenoma/folliclar cell hyperplasia - done
- Follicular CA - total thyroidectomy and 131I (if >1cm or extrathyroidal)

53
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Medullary thyroid carcinoma

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MEN IIa or IIb
Parafollicular C cells
Path - amyloid deposition
Screen for hyperPTH and Pheo
Lymphatic spread
Tx: total thyroidectomy with central neck node dissection
54
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What is the first manifestation of MEN IIa or IIb?

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Diarrhea

55
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Where does medullary thyroid cancer spread to?

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Lung, liver, bones

56
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Prophylaxtic thyroidectomy and central node dissection for MEN - when?

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MEN IIa - 6yo

MEN IIb - 2yo

57
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Hurthle cell carcinoma

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Most benign
Bone and lung mets
Tx: Total thyroidectomy and MRND for clinically positive nodes

58
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Anaplastic thyroid cancer

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Most aggressive

Tx: total thyroidectom, palliative thyroidectomy or chemo-XRT

59
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XRT effective for:

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Papillary, follicular, medullary and Hurthle cell thyroid CA

60
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131I effective for:

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Papillary and follicular thyroid CA only

61
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Indications for 131I

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Recurrent CA
Primary inoperable tumors due to invasion
Tumars >1cm or extrathyroidal disease (extra-capsular invasion, nodal spread or mets)

62
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I131 AE

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Sialoadenitis
GI symptoms
Infertility
BM suppression
Parathyroid dysfunction
Leukemia
63
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Gene Mutations: Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

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BRAF

64
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Gene Mutations: Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

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RET-1

65
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Gene Mutations: Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma

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p53

66
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Gene Mutations: Follicular thyroid carcinoma

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PAX8/PPAR-gamma

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