NECK Flashcards
THE ____ MUSCLES ARE ALONG THE ANTERIOR SURFACE OF THE THYROID GLAND
STRAP
THE LARGER STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLES ARE LOCATED
ANTEROLATERALLY
POSTERIOR TO THYROID IS THE
LONGUS COLLI MUSCLE
THE _____ ____ ________ IS COMPOSED OF THE RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE AND INFERIOR THYROID VESSELS
MINOR NEUROVASCULAR BUNDLE
THE NORMAL PARATHYROID GLANS, LOCATED ON THE ______ ASPECT OF THE THYROID
POSTERIOR
AN INCREASE IN _____ IS USUALLY THE FIRST INDICATION OF HYPOTHYROIDISM
TSH
NORMAL FUNCTIONING PITUITARY AND HYPOTHALAMUS:
HYPOTHYROIDISM: ___TSH & ___ T4/T3
HYPERTHYROIDISM: ____TSH & ____T4/T3
INCREASED & DECREASED
DECREASED& INCREASED
_____ ADENOMAS ARE THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF ADENOMA IN THE THYROID
FOLLICULAR
-MOST COMMON PRIMARY THYROID CANCER
-MAJOR ROUTE OF SPREAD IS THROUGH THE LYMPHATICS
PAPILLARY CARCINOMA
FOLLICULAR CANCERS TEND TO SPREAD VIA THE ____ STREAM RATHER THAN THE LYMPHATICS
BLOOD
-MOST COMMON TYPE OF THYROIDITIS
-COMMON CAUSE OF HYPOTHYROIDISM
- INCREASED TSH
-DECREASED T4/T3
-CAN INCREASE RISK OF CANCER
HASHIMOTOS
-PRESENTS WITH PAINFUL SWELLING OF NECK AND FEVER FOLLOWING A VIRAL ILLNESS
DE QUERVAINS THYROIDITIS
______ DISEASE IS AN AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER IN WHICH THE IMMUNE SYSTEM PRODUCES A PROTEIN CALLED THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBIN
-MOST COMMON CAUSE OF HYPERTHYROIDISM
-HYPERVASCULAR THYROID
-DECREASED TSH
-INCREASED T4/T3
-PROMINENT EYES
GRAVES DISEASE
THERE ARE ____ PARATHYROID GLANDS LOCATED POSTERIOR TO THE THYROID
FOUR
THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF HYPERPARATHYROIDISM WHICH IS DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADENOMA ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS
PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM