[Answered]: A 46-year-old woman arrives in your clinic for…

A 46-year-old woman arrives in your clinic for routine examination. She has no specific complaints, and a full review of systems is unrevealing. On physical examination she has normal vital signs and a 1.5 cm thyroid nodule is palpated in the right lobe of her thyroid; there are no other abnormal findings. A laboratory test reveals a serum TSH level of 2.3 mU/L. Which of the following would be the most appropriate recommendation? Question 13Answer a. No intervention needed; a wait and watch approach is recommended b. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy c. Radioiodine therapy d. Unilateral thyroid lobectomy e. Thyroxine suppressive therapy