represent 15 to 37 percent of all surgical excised thyroid nodules. [1 5] CTNs include true or simple thyroid cysts, with an epithelial lining, and mixed nodules with a predominantly fluid component.

It is recommended that a minimum of two passes be made into various portions of the nodule to ... a parathyroid cyst, whereas yellow fluid is more typical of a cyst of thyroid follicular origin.

Smith was a good candidate because her growth was: benign and a low cancer risk not surrounded by other nodules solid and not ...