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What Causes Heaviness In The Chest Area After Thyroid Surgery?
Dear Dr. I have surgery for thyroid cancer which fell into my chest two years ago. My thyroid are completely out and my chest surgery has healed fairly good. Now I am getting a funny feelings in the area where the thyroid fell into the chest. I had an xray and was told it can be stuff in the area. Please let me know if this is serious, because I am getting a heaviness in the area of my chest and throat, but no pain.
Tue, 21 Oct 2014
Thanks for your question on HCM.
In my opinion you should get done CT scan of neck to rule out recurrence of thyroid malignancy.
Thyroid tumours are known for recurrence.
So we have to rule out recurrence first.
You can also go for PET scan.
PET scan also gives hot spots on the area of recurrence as tumour cells have higher uptake of PET contrast.
So I advice you to consult oncophysician and discuss all these.
In my opinion you should get done CT scan of neck to rule out recurrence of thyroid malignancy.
Thyroid tumours are known for recurrence.
So we have to rule out recurrence first.
You can also go for PET scan.
PET scan also gives hot spots on the area of recurrence as tumour cells have higher uptake of PET contrast.
So I advice you to consult oncophysician and discuss all these.
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