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swollen lymph nodes

Anyone experience swollen lymph nodes after thyroidectomy for papillary carcinoma.( Post op about 9 months now)
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1483143 tn?1292385583
Do the lymph nodes usually swell after thyroid surgery?
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158939 tn?1274915197
Your lymph nodes should have returned to normal now.  Was there any spread to the lymph nodes?  Have they done a radioactive iodine scan since your surgery?

Do you know your latest thyroglobulin level?


Utahmomma
papillary carcinoma '03, second surgery '04, recurrence and RAI '06
three sisters with papillary carcinoma
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