Sandbox:DDx HEENT

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  • 35-50 yo women
  • Painless nodular enlargement in the neck
  • Euthyroid state
  • Iso-hyperechoic mass with alarge cystic component on U/S
  • Surrounding hypoechoic halo
  • Spongelike/honeycomb pattern with eggshell coarse calcifications
  • Intranodular vascularity
  • Heterogeneous iodine uptake on thyroid scan
  • Follicles of variable size
  • microfollicular architecture
  • Unencapsulated
  • No nuclear features suggestive of malignancy
  • TG-gene
  • TPO-gene
  • SLC5A5 gene
  • SLC26A4 gene
  • TSH-R-gene
  • DEHAL-1 gene
  • DUOX2 gene