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该核素扫描显示右甲状腺叶大部分下极区域摄取减少,其余甲状腺组织摄取正常且均匀。这与甲状腺内孤立性“冷”结节一致,即在一个正常甲状腺内存在孤立性结节,且该结节大小足以在临床上表现为颈部肿块(B正确)。 该病变未摄取核素,因此生理上无活性,与正常甲状腺相比;它似乎是一个真正的孤立性结节,存在于一个正常甲状腺内——单结节性甲状腺肿。可能的诊断包括孤立性出血性囊肿或胶质囊肿、良性腺瘤,或甲状腺恶性肿瘤——这些可能是乳头状癌(年轻成人中最常见)、滤泡性癌(较少见且难以与良性腺瘤区分),或髓样癌(最少见,通常是多发性内分泌肿瘤综合征的一部分)。诊断可通过超声引导下的细针穿刺细胞学或核心活检获得。 乳头状癌很少扩散至头颈部以外;滤泡性癌可发生血行转移,有时转移至骨骼,并可能以病理性骨折为首发表现。 体重减轻和震颤发生于甲状腺功能亢进(Graves病)的年轻患者;甲状腺可能未肿大,但通常弥漫性摄取核素,这与扫描结果不符。 疼痛可作为初始症状,表现为结节内急性出血,但更常见的表现是无痛性肿块。 干燥粗糙的皮肤见于甲状腺功能减退,表现为核素摄取减少——这是年轻成人中罕见的表现,且与单结节性甲状腺肿无关,而本病例的诊断或排除甲状腺癌是主要关注点。
Previously thought possibly to represent thyroid metaplasia in lymphoid tissue, and labelled 'lateral aberrant thyroid', it is now recognised that findings of differentiated thyroid tissue in a lymph node invariably indicate lymph node metastasis from a primary carcinoma of the thyroid, which is often small and occult (C is correct). The usual type of thyroid cancer to give lymph node metastases is the papillary carcinoma, which has no familial tendency. Papillary thyroid cancer affects young adults of either sex and is a slow-growing neoplasm. Spread is predominantly via lymphatic drainage to midline pretracheal and prelaryngeal nodes in front of the thyrohyoid membrane (the latter called 'Delphic' or 'oracular' node because it is a predictor of an underlying, but inapparent cancer). Spread also occurs to the deep cervical chain of nodes following superior and middle thyroid veins, and to nodes around the recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve and anterior mediastinum following inferior thyroid veins. The natural history of the condition is generally favourable and usually extends over many years. The lesion only rarely spreads beyond head and neck: repeated operations for recurrent tumour can often contain the disease for years. Spread via the blood stream is unusual, in contrast to the follicular and medullary types of thyroid cancer, so repeated local surgery for recurrences after primary surgery is worthwhile. Subacute (de Quervain) thyroiditis, thyroglossal duct cyst and lymphadenoid (Hashimoto) thyroiditis have entirely different clinical features, and benign thyroid adenomas are confined to the thyroid gland itself. (缺图)
The findings are classical of a right third (oculomotor) nerve palsy. Paralysis of the autonomic motor parasympathetic fibres coming from the Edinger-Westphal nucleus, results in sympathetic pupillary dilatation and failure of the direct and consensual responses to light (subserved by afferent impulses along the right and left optic nerves and efferent autonomic innervation of the right sphincter pupillae). These autonomic motor fibres are situated in the superior part of the third nerve and are involved early by focal compression secondary to an epidural haematoma (B is correct). The corneal reflex is subserved by the sensory fifth nerve afferents, but the efferent motor side of the reflex arc is via the seventh nerve. The fourth and sixth nerves do not subserve pupillary reflexes but give isolated ocular muscle palsies causing vertical diplopia on downward gaze (fourth nerve - superior oblique palsy), or lateral diplopia on outward gaze (sixth nerve - external rectus palsy). A second nerve palsy causes unilateral blindness with failure of the direct but not the consensual responses to light, and without change in pupillary size. Ptosis is commonly associated with a third nerve palsy, as the third nerve supplies the levator of the upper lid (levator palpebrae superioris) as well as the muscles responsible for ocular movements apart from the two mentioned above. In a complete third nerve lesion the eye is displaced downwards and outwards due to unopposed actions of external rectus and superior oblique - the 'down-and-out' eye. In a partial third nerve paralysis, ptosis may be the most prominent feature as illustrated below. The other illustration shows a left sixth nerve palsy identified on left lateral gaze. (缺图)
Because of the patient's increased metabolic state and vascular hyperactivity, pulmonary embolism is extremely uncommon after thyroidectomy for thyrotoxicosis, especially given the onset of symptoms soon after surgery. Pulmonary atelectasis is the most common cause of early postoperative fever and tachycardia after all classes of surgery (A is correct). Wound infection and septicaemia are both uncommon after the elective clean surgical procedure of thyroidectomy, unless a gross breach of aseptic technique has occurred in conjunction with a wound haematoma; and the onset is again earlier than one would expect. Inspection of the wound area to check that no upper airway obstruction from a deep wound haematoma is present is, however, mandatory. A thyroid crisis is an important differential diagnosis. This complication is now very uncommon after adequate preoperative patient preparation; and all thyrotoxic patients proceeding to surgery require adequate medical treatment with antithyroid medication, if necessary supplemented by addition of a beta-blocker. Such treatment is usually required for one or two weeks, so that the patient is clinically and biochemically euthyroid at the time of surgery, and the risk of exacerbation of thyrotoxicosis after surgery (thyroid crisis) is thereby minimised or eliminated. An ECG would be appropriate to exclude with certainty a dysrhythmia - but atrial fibrillation is unlikely with a regular pulse and atrial flutter also less likely than sinus tachycardia with a pulse rate of 110/min. In patients with florid postoperative thyroid crisis, in times past, the clinical picture was usually distinctive and alarming with more rapid pulse, higher fever and marked systemic signs.
Episodes of fleeting transient monocular loss or blurring of vision (amaurosis fugax) are characteristic of an ipsilateral carotid artery lesion, often a stenotic lesion or an ulcerating atherosclerotic plaque, causing transient reversible ophthalmic artery ischaemia from minute emboli. The central retinal artery divides into upper and lower branches at the optic nerve head (B is correct). • When an embolus blocks the upper branch, the experience is described as a shadow moving up from the inferior periphery and stopping in the middle of the field at the horizontal line. • When the embolus blocks the lower branch, the resulting obscuration is described as descending from above, and again stops at a central horizontal line. • When the main trunk of the retinal artery is blocked in the optic nerve head, there is a gradual constriction of the visual field until only a central bright spot remains, which then extinguishes. In all cases, the obstruction usually lasts less than a minute and, as the embolus breaks up, it moves to the periphery. The retinal circulation is re-established and the visual obscuration reverses. The sight returns as the obscuration moves either up or down, in the case of a branch occlusion, or expands from a central point, expanding to the periphery when the main trunk of the central retinal artery is involved. Giant cell (temporal) arteritis classically causes premonitory severe constant focal headache preceding visual loss, which, when it occurs, is usually permanent. The headache is often associated with aching jaw claudication on chewing. Acute glaucoma classically presents with acute pain associated with a painful red eye, with dilated ciliary vessels and corneal oedema with a hazy cornea, an irregular light reflex and a nonreactive pupil, and a high intraocular pressure. In chronic glaucoma there is chronic gradual loss of sight that is non-symptomatic. Raised intracranial pressure is characterised by worsening headache, often associated with vomiting, progressing to drowsiness and papilloedema. Bradycardia and hypertension are late symptoms associated with tentorial herniation. Transient visual obscurations frequently accompany raised intracranial pressure due to transient interference with optic nerve transmission in the presence of papilloedema. Systemic hypertension is another important cause of headache, rather than transient loss of vision as is the case in this scenario.