Thyroid nodes

Looks like

Small nodes on or next to the thyroid gland.

What it does

Filter lymph draining from the thyroid.

Keeping it well

Enlarged in thyroid inflammation and thyroid cancer; a new firm lump in the lower front neck needs an ultrasound.

Related conditions

• African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
• Cat-scratch disease
• Head and neck cancer
• Mpox (monkeypox)
• Rubella (German measles)
• Thyroid cancer
• Tonsillitis & quinsy