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Thyroid Examination

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Wash hands, introduce yourself, consent patient.

  • OBSERVATION
    • Body habitus
    • Appropriateness of warm/cool clothing
    • Sweating/Lethargy
  • HANDS
    • Tremor
    • Pallor
    • Warmth/dryness of skin
    • Pulse
  • VITALS
  • NECK
    • Palpate thyroid – tender, fixed or mobile mass
    • Palpate with swallowing – attached to cricothyroid cartilage
    • Cervical lymph nodes
    • Pemberton’s sign
    • Retrosternal dullness
  • HEAD
    • Eyes: painful movement, exophthalmos, lid lag, lid retraction
    • Thinning hair
  • CHEST
    • Acanthosis Nigricans
    • Auscultate heart ?flow murmur
  • LEGS
    • Pretibial myxoedema
    • Reflexes
    • Proximal myopathy
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