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A 34-year-old female presented with a large thyroid nodule of the right lobe of thyroid causing compressive features. On assessment, it was a euthyroid solitary nodule of the right lobe with a significant deviation of the trachea. The US scan could not visualize the left lobe clearly.
Ranil Fernando is the lead author of this chapter.
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Agarwal, A., Fernando, R., Parameswaran, R., Mishra, A., Pradhan, R. (2023). Hemi Agenesis of Thyroid. In: Case Studies in Thyroid and Parathyroid Tumors. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0938-4_45
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