Wednesday, June 14, 2006

favorite sentence du jour

"Echogenicity, echo structure, shape, border classification, and grade of internal vascularity did not show any significant difference between benign and malignant nodules in this study." (linked here)

Why?

My doctor just called and she's all freaked that I'm leaving town without seeing a surgeon. She said the vascularity of the nodules are cause for concern - as well as the evidence of cellular degeneration (and in addition to highly elevated thyroglobulin).

This article says that while it is good to be concerned, there's no link between cancer and nodules having their own blood supply.

And she's writing my referral tonight. She turned out to be an all right kind of doc.

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