A Patient Says That She Has Recently Noticed a Lump

question 15

Multiple Choice

A patient says that she has recently noticed a lump in the front of her neck below her "Adam's apple" that seems to be getting bigger.During the assessment,the finding that leads the nurse to suspect that this may not be a cancerous thyroid nodule is that the lump (nodule) :

• A) is tender.
• B) is mobile and not hard.
• C) disappears when the patient smiles.
• D) is hard and fixed to the surrounding structures.

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