I took out a thyroid today. Usually it's a red organ in the shape of a bow tie in the neck. This one was blue. It turns out that if a person takes certain medications, sometimes the thyroid turns blue. This patient was taking minocycline which is an antibiotic. It turned his thyroid blue. So here it is. The picture doesn't do it justice, but notice how it's mostly red with specks of blue everywhere. Kewl!