These newly
discovered nodule - dwellers may help scientists monitor the impact of future deep - sea mining.
Discovering a nodule on your neck is not an automatic diagnosis of thyroid cancer, says Dr. Gharib, and up to half of all adults have them.
Death, of course, seems a natural recourse for a season characterized, tonally speaking, by gloom, and indications of impending disaster are peppered liberally throughout: Don, in «Lazy Lazarus,» receives an existential crisis in miniature as the doors to a high - rise elevator open onto a yawning void; a newly obese Betty (January Jones), in «Tea Leaves,»
discovers a nodule on her thyroid which may be cancerous; Roger (John Slattery), taking LSD in «Far Away Places,» authors a note of cautionary instruction to be left on his greatly disoriented person.
Not exact matches
Scientists using the Rosetta spacecraft — which arrived at 67P in August and became the first mission to orbit and land on a comet — now think they may have
discovered the source of these patterns on cliff faces and in deep pits: layer upon layer of rounded
nodules, 1 to 3 meters across.
«To
discover that
nodules aren't regulated as strictly as previously thought is an important finding,» says Hungria.
Every year, health care providers in the United States
discover more than 1.6 million lung
nodules in patients.
This research is part of the Pulmonary
Nodule Plasma Proteomic Classifier (PANOPTIC) study, a clinical trial of 685 patients 40 years old or older, with newly
discovered lung
nodules 8 to 30 millimeters in diameter as shown on a recent (fewer than 60 days old) CT scan.
She had just come from an endocrinologist's office where they
discovered a small thyroid
nodule during a thyroid ultrasound exam.
Then, when inconclusive
nodules are
discovered, these patients are sent for surgery to remove the thyroid, and some
discover too late that the
nodules were not cancerous.
«When a
nodule is
discovered, referral to an endocrinologist is important for a careful evaluation.»