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Elected lobectomy on other side
My family member elected to have a lobectomy on other side recently. They had been diagnosed with minimally invasive follicular carcinoma. Question: Is it mandatory a biopsy/pathology report be done on the elective side too? Would be more relieved if it were. Not seeing any report yet. Surgery was done April 17th
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I would think they need to do pathology on the lobe removed. I don’t think they wouldn’t do it if a patient had the other lobe originally removed due to cancer. I also think they wouldn’t need to justify removal of the 2nd lobe to the insurance company based upon noting suspicious nodules/calcifications, etc. and needing to be on thyroid medication for life.
My sister had thyroid cancer at 27 and first had her one lobe removed and when pathology confirmed cancer, she had the 2nd lobe removed. I had a suspicion 2.5 cm nodules in my right lobe (I was in my early 50s) that was removed and it was not cancer but pathology found a micro cancer. I still have my left lobe but there is a large macro calcification and I am taking levothyroxine for hypothyroidism now. At some point, I might need the left lobe removed. If I was able to elect to have it removed, I would hope they would do the pathology on the macro calcification.
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Correction, they would need to justify removal to insurance company and believe they would require pathology documentation.
I just had my right lobe removed April 8th. It had cancer. My left one was removed Sept 29th, 2023. Also because of cancer. They did pathology reports after surgery on both. I feel worse right now more so than before the surgery. I'm praying relief comes soon.
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