Pamela Morris is a 62-year-old woman with a 4-year history of Graves' disease that has not responded to medical therapy.She is scheduled for a subtotal thyroidectomy.What condition,a complication of Graves' disease,is her probable indication for a subtotal thyroidectomy?
A) Tracheal obstruction
B) Diffuse unilateral enlargement of a lobe
C) Hyperthyroidism with cricothyroid compression
D) Autoimmune hypothyroidism
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