Thyroid cancer often shows subtle early symptoms that are easy to miss. Here are seven key warning signs, when to seek ...

You’re fiddling with a necklace when suddenly you notice a lump near the base of your throat. Or perhaps you’re yawning and a friend spots a swollen spot on your neck. What gives? Although they can be ...

Thyroid nodules commonly develop in humans and are variable in size, shape and location. Most of these growths are not cancer but may create symptoms of discomfort over time depending on the size, and ...

A person can have thyroid cancer for months or years without experiencing any symptoms. Symptoms may not develop until the cancer advances. The thyroid is a gland at the base of the throat that sends ...

Enlarging purple pruritic nodules on the dorsal neck One month after a painful neck rash, an HIV-positive man develops pruritic purple lesions at the same site. A 34-year-old African American man ...

The patient’s nodules were keloid scars due to herpes zoster. With age-related decrease in cell-mediated immunity, the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that has been lying dormant in a dorsal root ...