,INDICATION FOR OPERATION:  ,The patient is a 59-year-old female with previous history of follicular thyroid cancer, approximately 40 years ago, status post resection with recurrence in the 1980s, who had a left pleural-based mass identified on chest x-ray. 
,INDICATION FOR OPERATION : , The patient is a 59 - year - old female with previous history of follicular thyroid cancer , approximately 40 years ago , status post resection with recurrence in the 1980s , who had a left pleural - based mass identified on chest x - ray .