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Thyroid & neck swellings: a free FRCS (Gen Surg) Section 1 question

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A 31-year-old woman has had a rubbery 3 cm left supraclavicular lymph node for eight weeks, with drenching night sweats. Two smaller nodes lie beside it on ultrasound. Fine-needle aspiration shows a mixed lymphoid population with occasional large atypical cells and is reported as non-diagnostic.

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