Thyroid benign tumor symptoms?

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During the physical examination, an employee was found to have a thyroid tumor. At that time, people didn't know much about the disease. When the employee knew the examination results, he spread out on his seat. After careful inquiry, he knew that his tumor was benign. However, this colleague was still very worried, It's like a time bomb in your body. Let's take a look at the following.

Thyroid benign tumor symptoms?

First: thyroid tumor occurs in the front of the neck, the shape of walnut, hard texture, and can move up and down with swallowing. In the early stage of onset, there are generally no obvious symptoms, no pain, no itching, and it does not affect speaking and eating. So it's usually discovered when people have a physical examination. But some of them can increase rapidly in a short time, the neck becomes thicker, and then continue to develop can affect breathing, a few can appear hoarseness or dysphagia.

Second: General benign thyroid tumor, some can be short-term rapid enlargement, neck thickening, and then continue to develop can affect breathing, a few can appear hoarseness or dysphagia. It can also be secondary to hyperthyroidism, can also occur malignant transformation. The malignant transformation rate of benign thyroid tumor is as high as 20%.

Third: part of thyroid adenoma can be cancerous, the canceration rate is 10-20%. The possibility of canceration should be considered only in the following cases. Its main symptoms are: hoarseness, dyspnea and other compression symptoms, tumor hard, rough surface, cervical lymph node enlargement, tumor rapid growth in the near future, tumor activity is limited or fixed.

matters needing attention

In addition to functional autonomous thyroid tumor, most benign thyroid tumors are solitary thyroid nodules, and a few are multiple nodules. The course of disease is slow, and there are no conscious symptoms in clinic. Most of them are found in a few months to a few years or even longer. They are found with slight discomfort or the mass is larger than LCM or without any symptoms. They are found with B-ultrasound during routine physical examination.