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Total thyroidectomy with central and right lateral neck lymph node dissection

From a 74-year-old man with diffuse follicular variant papillary thyroid cancer metastatic to the pituitary. The thyroid capsule was not observed over the right thyroid lobe. The tumor was extrathyroidal. The right internal jugular vein was obliterated. (Source: Kırkgöz T, Gürsoy S, Acar S, et al. Genetic diagnosis of congenital hypopituitarism in Turkish patients by a target gene panel: novel pathogenic variants in GHRHR, GLI2, LHX4, and POU1F1 genes. Arch Endocrinol Metab 2023;68:e220254. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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